GUERRERO v. BNSF RY. CO.

No. 19-1187.

929 F.3d 926 (2019)

Rita GUERRERO, individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 17, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Patterson , Attorney, LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT B. PATTERSON, LTD, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stephen J. Heine , Attorney, KNIGHT NICASTRO LLC, Peoria, Richard T. Sikes, Jr. , Attorney, KNIGHT NICASTRO, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Bauer and Easterbrook, Circuit Judges.


Behind the legal question we must resolve in this case is a sad story: as Celso Guerrero was trying to drive to his job at BNSF Railway through a snowstorm early one morning, his car skidded, it collided with a snowplow, and he was killed. His widow, Rita Guerrero, who appears on her own behalf and as administrator of her late...

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