City of Chicago v. Edson

This is an action for negligence by the appellee against the city, in which he recovered.

The city asked thirteen instructions, assigned twenty-six reasons for a' new trial, and assigns twenty-one errors here. Snc'h a mass of matter beclouds a case. Harding v. Sandy, 43 Ill. App. The appellee worked for the city as a fireman in the boiler room in the city hall, for $60 per month. He was less than forty years of age, and had been a locomotive engineer for eleven years, at which employment he could earn much higher wages. He has suffered a great deal of pain, and is helpless for the remainder…