Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1902 — Walk Track at Your Risk. [ARTICLE]

Walk Track at Your Risk.

' The Appellate Court held Friday that one who uses the raili) road track as a footpath doee so at bis own risk, although it has been so used by the public for a 1 long time without any objection by the railroad company- This decision was made in affirming a judgment for the defendant in the -faction to recover for the death of Ellen Davis, an elderly woman who was run over by a Big Four engine at Alexandria. The court said that the company owed her no duty exoept to , avoid her any intentional injury, and was not liable for the carelessness of its engineer.