Appellate Court of Illinois, 1913

Brand v. Osborne

Brand v. Osborne
Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided December 2, 1913 · Smith
184 Ill. App. 11; 1913 Ill. App. LEXIS 43

Brand v. Osborne

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice F. A. Smith

delivered the opinion of the court.

3. Railroads, § 667*—when evidence shows failure to loots or listen. A person familiar with the situation and use of electric tracks in a city was killed hy a car at a crossing at night. The view of the track for from three hundred to four hundred feet was unobstructed by anything except a few trees from which the leaves had fallen, and when within fifty or sixty feet of the track a clear view could be had for over a thousand feet. The car was brightly lighted and had a powerful electric searchlight burning that could have been seen for a mile. Held, the deceased did not look or listen and was contributorily negligent.

Clark, J., dissenting.

4. Railboads, § 651*—effect of contributory negligence. A person crossing a railroad crossing not exercising due care and caution is negligent, and if such negligence contributes to his death by being struck by a train there can be no recovery.

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