Nellis v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. J. Cooke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gridley
Various points are here urged by counsel for defendant as grounds for a reversal of the judgment. Counsel’s main-point is, however, that the court erred in admitting in' evidence the said diversion orders (plaintiff’s exhibits 1 and 2), because they showed a contract between the parties different and at variance with the contract as averred in the several counts of the declaration, and in not granting defendant’s motion, made at the close of plaintiff’s testimony, to exclude all of plaintiff’s evidence because of such variance. We are of the opinion that the point is well taken.
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