West Chicago Street Railway Co. v. Moras

Appellee, a practicing physician and surgeon in Chicago, ' October 9, 1896, had his left hand and wrist crushed by being run over by one of appellant’s grip cars, rendering an amputation and several re-amputations of his arm necessary. He sued appellant for his injuries, and there have been three trials, the first resulting in a disagreement of the jury, the second in a verdict in appellee’s favor of $36,000, which was set aside by the trial court, and the third in a verdict for appellee of $45,000, on which, after a remittitur of $20,000, judgment was rendered for $25,000, from which this…