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LANGENHORST v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RY. CO.

No. 5-02-0459.

822 N.E.2d 480 (2004)

354 Ill. App.3d 1103

290 Ill.Dec. 895

Rita LANGENHORST, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Gerald Langenhorst, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Jimmy Ellis, Samuel Baggett, and Keith Egmon, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

December 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kurt E. Reitz, Heath H. Hooks, Thompson Coburn, LLP, Belleville, for Appellants.

Thomas Q. Keefe, Jr., Belleville, for Appellee.

Justice KUEHN delivered the opinion of the court:

The two Norfolk Southern Railway Company crossbucks that bracket railroad crossing 724641H, and warn of its existence, cast their shadows 26 miles east by northeast of the St. Clair County courthouse. The crossbucks stand about nine miles closer to the Clinton County courthouse.

This seemingly unimportant geographical difference in reference to the courtrooms of two adjacent counties became important when Rita...

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