Wight Fire Proofing Co. v. Poczekai
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding. This court may review the evidence to see if it justified the rulings of the trial and Appellate courts. Holmes v. Railroad Co. 94 Ill. 444; Union Ry.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding. This court may review the evidence to see if it justified the rulings of the trial and Appellate courts. Holmes v. Railroad Co. 94 Ill. 444; Union Ry. Co. v. Shacklet, 119 id. 232 ; Railroad Co. v. Thompson, 116 id. 159; Launtz v. People, 113 id. 144; City of Mattoon v. Fallin, id. 250 ; Fitch v. Johnson, 104 id. 119. Not only must negligence be shown, but this negligence must be shown to have caused the accident. Shearman &…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
Appellee recovered judgment in the Superior Court of Cook county, in case, for $2000, and on appellant’s appeal the judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District.
Busse & Sturtevant had the contract for the mason work on a building which the Phoenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn was erecting on the south-west corner of Clark and Jackson streets, in Chicago, and appellee was working for them. On December 6,1886, the mason work was finished, and appellee was employed, with others, in lowering certain planks which had been used by the masons for scaffolding, from the attic…
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