Dixon v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Contempt of Court.—Error to the Circuit Court of Sangamon County; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
2Per curiam
The appellant, a physician and surgeon, was brought into the Circuit Court of Sangamon County by the ordinary process of subpoena to testify as a witness in behalf of the defendant in a case then pending against the city of Springfield, brought to recover damages for personal injuries, which the plaintiff alleged she had received from a fall upon a defective sidewalk.
The appellant knew nothing whatever of the facts of the case, and he declined to answer a hypothetical question propounded to him calling for his professional opinion upon the assumed state of facts mentioned in the…
3Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Woodyatt v. ThompsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
4Cited by2 opinions
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