A state appeals panel has reinstated a personal-injury case against a railroad company.
Cook County Circuit Judge Kathy M. Flanagan granted summary judgment in October 2013 in favor of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. — operating as Canadian National Railway — finding that its former employee, Aubrey Bolden, failed to file his lawsuit for a knee injury within the three-year statute of limitations under the Federal Employer’s Liability Act (FELA).
Though Bolden long had intermittent pain in his …