Smith v. Morrow

Mr. Presiding Justice Partlow

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellee, William J. Smith, as administrator of the estate of Mabel Victoria Cooper, deceased, began suit in the circuit court of Lake county against appellant, James Morrow, to recover damages for the death of appellee’s intestate by reason of her falling from a porch belonging to the appellant. There was a trial by jury, and at the close of all the evidence the court directed a verdict in favor of the appellant. An appeal was prosecuted to this court where the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded (220 Ill. App. 627). On…