Cicero & Proviso Street Railway Co. v. Meixner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George F. Blanke, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, by appellee, against appellant, to recover damages for personal injuries received by him while attempting to board an electric street car. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George F. Blanke, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, by appellee, against appellant, to recover damages for personal injuries received by him while attempting to board an electric street car. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. A jury in the trial court returned a verdict of §8000 for plaintiff, on which judgment was rendered, and on appeal to the Appellate Court it was affirmed. The case comes to this court on appeal from the judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
One of the errors assigned for the reversal of this judgment is the refusal of the trial court to instruct the jury, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, to find for the defendant, and the refusal of the court to give a like instruction that, as a matter of law, the plaintiff had failed to make out his case, which was asked at the close of the argument.
It is urged that the evidence of plaintiff did not warrant the jury in finding that the injury of plaintiff was the result of defendant’s negligence, as charged in the declaration, and also that the evidence of plaintiff establishes that…
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