Western Union Railroad v. Fulton

Citations

• 64 Ill. 271

Syllabus

<p>Railroads—of their duty to ring a bell or sound a whistle before reaching a crossing—construction of the act of 1849. The police regulations of the act of 1849, requiring railroad companies to ring a bell or sound a whistle before reaching a public road crossing with their trains, apply to all railroads in the State not specially exempted by their charters,—as well to those chartered since the passage of the act as to those receiving their charters before that time.</p>