Payne v. Irvin
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
Counsel for appellants, in his brief filed in this court, says : “ I admit that the sole question before this court is whether, as a matter of law, the facts in proof will support the verdict.”
On the trial appellants asked, and the court refused, an instruction requiring the jury to return a verdict for the defendants, and thereby the court was asked to say, as a matter of law, that the facts proved, with all the inferences legitimately arising therefrom, were insufficient to sustain a verdict for appellee. Under this state of the case, the question presented for our consideration is, whether…
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