Masonic Fraternity Temple Ass'n v. Collins
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. Edmund W. Burke, 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. Edmund W. Burke, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District affirming a judgment for $5000 rendered by the circuit court of Cook county in a suit brought by Annie E. Collins, administratrix of the estate of John L. Collins, deceased, against the Masonic Fraternity Temple Association, to recover damages for the death of said John L. Collins, occasioned through the alleged negligence of appellant. Collins was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
At the close of all the evidence a motion was interposed for an instruction directing the jury to find for the defendant. The action of the court in overruling that motion is assigned as error. This assignment presents the question, is there in this record.any evidence which, with the inferences reasonably to be drawn therefrom, tends to prove the averments of the declaration?
Tiie evidence that the operator stopped at the thirteenth floor without calling that floor, or the evidence that the operator started the elevator upward before the door at that floor was entirely closed, warranted the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bailey v. SmithIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
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