Chicago City Railway Co. v. Saxby
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case brought by the appellee in the circuit court of Cook county, against the appellant, to recover damages for an injury to her person claimed to have been sustained by her in consequence of the car of appellant, upon which she was a passenger, being suddenly started as she was about to leave the car and before she had time to alight upon the street, whereby she was thrown down and injured.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, and again at the close of all the evidence, the defendant requested the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict in its favor, which the court declined to do, and the action of the court in that regard has been assigned as error.
On the evening of August 16, 1899, appellee was a passenger upon one of appellant’s cars going south upon Indiana avenue, in the city of Chicago. The evidence introduced on her behalf tended to show that as the car approached Forty-fifth street she signaled the conductor to stop the car at that street; that the car…
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