Morton v. Pusey
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Stephen A. Foster, Judge, presiding. On May 20, 1908, Rena Morton, a minor, the defendant in error, by her next friend, recovered a judgment for the sum of $500, in the municipal court of Chicago, against Evan Pusey, plaintiff in error, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her through the negligence of plaintiff in error in the operation of an automobile at the corner of Sixty-fourth street and…
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Writ or Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Stephen A. Foster, Judge, presiding. On May 20, 1908, Rena Morton, a minor, the defendant in error, by her next friend, recovered a judgment for the sum of $500, in the municipal court of Chicago, against Evan Pusey, plaintiff in error, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by her through the negligence of plaintiff in error in the operation of an automobile at the corner of Sixty-fourth street and Stony Island avenue, in the city of Chicago, on the evening of August 4, 1907. To review that judgment plaintiff in error…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
' Pursuant to section 300 of chapter 37, Hurd’s Revised Statutes of 1905, the judge of the municipal court instructed the jury orally, and it is contended by plaintiff in error that this section 300, giving the judge discretion to deliver his charge orally or to deliver it in writing, is in violation of section 22 of article 4 of the constitution, which forbids the passage of any local or special law regulating the practice in courts of justice, and it is urged that it also violates section 29 of article 6 of the constitution, which reads as follows: “All judicial officers shall be…
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