Covert v. Rockford & Interurban Railway Co.

This cause comes to this court on a certificate of importance from the Appellate Court for the Second District for a review of the judgment of that court affirming the ruling of the circuit court of Winnebago county in instructing the jury selected in the cause to return a verdict finding the defendant not guilty.

Appellant filed his declaration against appellee charging negligence in the operation of its interurban electric car, by reason of which negligence the appellant was injured. The first and third counts of the declaration charged the appellee with operating a certain electric railroad…