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GILLSON v. GULF, M. & O.R. CO.

Gen. No. 67-76.

94 Ill. App.2d 170 (1968)

236 N.E.2d 113

William D. Gillson, as Administrator of the Estate of Bonnie Delores Gillson, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, Edwin S. Parker, Thomas Butler, and Village of Hartford, Illinois, a Municipality, Defendants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Rehearing denied May 6, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gillespie, Burke & Gillespie, of Springfield, and John W. Hoefert, of Alton, for appellant.

Hoagland, Maucker, Bernard & Almeter, of Alton (James K. Almeter, of counsel), for appellee.

GOLDENHERSH, J.

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, hereafter referred to as defendant, appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Madison County entered on a jury verdict in the amount of $28,000 for the wrongful death of Bonnie Delores Gillson, 17-year-old daughter of the plaintiff administrator.

The decedent was killed in a collision between an automobile in which she was riding as a passenger, and defendant's train known as the Abraham Lincoln...

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