Brennan v. Electrical Installation Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for death caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Elbridge Haneov, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Counsel for appellant ask us to reverse the judgment and remand this cause on account of “evidence improperly admitted,” of “errors in the instructions,” and of “the weight of the evidence.”
The testimony is sharply conflicting, and we should not interfere with the verdict of the jury or the. judgment on it, on account of their alleged inconsistency with the weight of the evidence, if we were satisfied that the trial of the question of fact before the jury was a fair one under correct rulings and instructions of the trial judge.
We do not purpose in this opinion to discuss the evidence. We have…
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