Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Wallace
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. R S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. This is an action, brought by appellee against the appellant .company to recover damages for personal injury.
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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. R S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. This is an action, brought by appellee against the appellant .company to recover damages for personal injury. The injury is alleged to have occurred on the morning of September 4, 1894, at which time plaintiff took passage bn one of defendant’s suburban passenger trains.at Chicago Heights to go to Englewood, or the Sixty-third street station, in Chicago; and, while alighting from the train at Englewood, she fell to the depot…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
Counsel for the appellant company urge only two points upon our attention as reasons for asking the reversal of the judgment of the Appellate Court. These two points are, first, that the trial court erred in refusing to sustain objections, made by appellant to certain hypothetical questions asked of expert witnesses testifying in behalf of appellee upon the trial below; and, second, that the court below erred in sustaining the demurrer to the plea of the Statute of Limitations, which was filed to the first additional count.
First — Objection is made to hypothetical questions put by counsel of…
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