Loettker v. Chicago City Railway Co.

An examination of the whole evidence impels us to the conviction that it is insufficient to support the judgment. While it is true that primarily the jury are the judges of the probative force of the evidence and their finding is not to be lightly disturbed, yet when this court, upon a review of the record, is of the opinion that the verdict is clearly contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence, it becomes its duty to reverse a judgment resting upon such unsupported and unwarranted verdict. This duty is imposed by the statutes of this state. As said by the court in C. & E. I. R. R. v.…