Chicago City Railway Co. v. Uhter
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. E. F. DunnE, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. DunnE, Judge, presiding. This is an action on the case, brought on May 18, 1895, by the appellee against the appellant company to recover damages for personal injuries, claimed to have been received by appellee on December 31, 1894, by being struck by one of appellant’s electric street railway cars at or near the intersection of Sixty-third street and Madison avenue in the city of Chicago. The ad .damnum was laid at $25,000.00. The plea of the general…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice MagrudEr
In the present action to recover damages on account of personal injuries the usual questions, whether or not the plaintiff below was in the exercise of due care for his own safety when the accident occurred, and whether or not the defendant was guilty of such negligence as caused the accident, were not the only questions involved upon the trial of the case, but there was also presented for the determination of the jury, upon the trial below, the question whether or not a certain release, executed by the appellee some five days after the accident occurred, was valid and binding upon the…
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