Chicago & Grand Trunk Ry. Co. v. Spurney
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding., Plaintiff’s eighth instruction: “ 8. It is not necessary for the plaintiff, nor will the law permit him, to put witnesses upon the stand for the purpose of testifying as to the amount of damages which the jury should award the plaintiff if, under the instructions of the court, they find a verdict in his favor.
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Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding., Plaintiff’s eighth instruction: “ 8. It is not necessary for the plaintiff, nor will the law permit him, to put witnesses upon the stand for the purpose of testifying as to the amount of damages which the jury should award the plaintiff if, under the instructions of the court, they find a verdict in his favor. This is a question solely for the jury to determine from the nature and character of the injuries received, if any, and the extent of such injuries,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
This was an action to recover for personal injuries said to have been caused by the negligence of appellant.
Appellee was employed by appellant to work about its grain elevator; his business seems to have been to shovel grain out of cars into a “ tank,” from whence an elevator took the grain up.
Upon the day of the accident, appellee upon his arrival at the elevator, saw that the elevating machinery was not in operation, and that a portion of a rope which passed over a shaft was, while not detached from the shaft, so unwound as to lie on the floor. Appellee endeavored, as he says, to get the…
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- West Chicago Street Railroad v. EstepIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
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