Chicago City Railway Co. v. Allen
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 Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, instituted in the Superior Court of Cook county by appellee, against the appellant company, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of the negligence of the servants of the appellant company.
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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 Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, instituted in the Superior Court of Cook county by appellee, against the appellant company, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of the negligence of the servants of the appellant company. The declaration alleged that while the appellee, with all due care, was endeavoring to enter one of appellant’s cars, which had stopped at the crossing of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The court refused to allow a witness produced on behalf of the appellee to answer the following question propounded by the appellant: “In what polling precinct was the corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-Second street on September 6, 1892?” And also refused to allow the same witness to answer another question, viz.: “Can you tell me now which of those precincts the corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-Second street,—any corner,—is?” The exclusion of the evidence sought to be elicited by these questions is urged as ground for the reversal of the judgment.
Whether the car in question came…
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