HAWTHORNE v. NEW YORK CENT. R. CO.

Term No. 54-F-7.

2 Ill. App.2d 338 (1954)

119 N.E.2d 516

Ernest Hawthorne, Administrator of Estate of Robert Walter Hawthorne, Deceased, Appellant, v. New York Central Railroad Company, and John Robert Williams, John Franklin and Paul Hardenbrook, Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Released for publication June 3, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

FRANK BONAN, of McLeansboro, for appellant.

KERN & PEARCE, of Carmi, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE CULBERTSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of White county which followed direction of a verdict in favor of defendants, New York Central Railroad Company, a corporation, and John Franklin, the engineer on the train, and as against Ernest Hawthorne, administrator of the estate of Robert Walter Hawthorne, deceased.

The action arose by reason of a suit filed by the administrator for damages...

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