JILEK v. MISSOURI PAC. R. CO.

Term No. 57-F-3.

13 Ill. App.2d 518 (1957)

142 N.E.2d 708

Louis Jilek, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Defendant-Appellant, and Illinois Central Railroad Company, Defendant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Released for publication June 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hickman & Hickman, of Benton, Walker & Williams, and David B. Stutsman, all of East St. Louis (T.T. Railey, of St. Louis, Missouri, of counsel) for Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, defendant-appellant.

Moses Pulverman, and Roy C. Martin, both of Benton (Herbert J. Deany, and Joseph H. Wright, both of Chicago, of counsel) for Illinois Central Railroad Company, defendant-appellee.

William G. Eovaldi, and Elmer Jenkins, both of Benton, for Louis Jilek, as plaintiff-appellee and plaintiff-appellant.


JUDGE CULBERTSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This action involves a proceeding against two defendants, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and Illinois Central Railroad Company. The appeals in each case are taken separately and shall be treated separately in the course of this opinion. In one case the plaintiff Louis Jilek, is appealing from the order of the Circuit Court of Franklin county denying his motion for new trial which raised the point that the Trial...

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