Nelson v. Fehd
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Jonas Huthinson, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch'Appellate Court at the October term, 1901.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant contends that the dimensions of the ditch dug by Nelson were such, it being a deepening of that made by the highway commissioners, that the evidence shows the wagon did not slip or slide into the deepening made by appellee. The evidence is to the effect that by the accident the buggy was completely overturned, all four wheels being in the air. Appellant urges that the relative dimensions of the buggy and ditch dug by him were, as shown by the evidence, such that if any portion of the buggy had slid or slipped into the…
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