Frink v. Schroyer
Illinois Supreme Court
The substance of tlie declaration is stated in the opinion of the court. The instructions are also there, at length. At November term, 1855, Manierre, Judge, presiding, a jury was sworn to try the issue joined in the case between Joseph J. Schroyer, plaintiff, and John Frink, Martin O. Walker, Gr.
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The substance of tlie declaration is stated in the opinion of the court. The instructions are also there, at length. At November term, 1855, Manierre, Judge, presiding, a jury was sworn to try the issue joined in the case between Joseph J. Schroyer, plaintiff, and John Frink, Martin O. Walker, Gr. Kimball, 0. D. Davis, D. S. Morris, L. P. Sanger, A. R. Burnell, R. Stuart, O. C. Parmelee, Edward A. Damson, Bissell Humphreys, and D. B. Hibbard, and having heard the evidence, retired to consider. There was a verdict for plaintiff for five thousand dollars, and defendants moved for a new trial,…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action on the case. The declaration alleges that Frink, Walker, Kimball, Davis, Moore, Sanger, Biu-nell, Stewart, Parmelee, Damon, Humphreys, and Hibbard, on, etc., at, etc., “were owners of a certain stage coach, by them used and employed in carrying passengers from Springfield, in Sangamon county, to La Salle, in La Salle county, all in the State of Illinois, and divers other places, to wit,” etc.; alleges that the defendants, “ being such owners of said stage coach,” on the day, and at the place mentioned, “ received into their coach the said plaintiff as a passenger therein,…
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