Brownell Improvement Co. v. Critchfield
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. The following statement of facts as made by the Appellate Court is sufficiently full and accurate, and is adopted as the statement of this court: “Appellees contracted with the city of Chicago, on August 26, 1895, to curb, grade and pave a portion of Wabash avenue, in said city.
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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. The following statement of facts as made by the Appellate Court is sufficiently full and accurate, and is adopted as the statement of this court: “Appellees contracted with the city of Chicago, on August 26, 1895, to curb, grade and pave a portion of Wabash avenue, in said city. The written contract provided that the work should be done according to specifications, and that the work should be approved by the commissioner of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ricks
At the close of the plaintiffs’ evidence, and again at the close of all the evidence, the defendant requested the court to hold, as a proposition of law, that the evidence adduced on the hearing of the cause was not sufficient, in law, to entitle the plaintiffs to recover and that the issues should be for the defendant, which proposition was refused by the court; and after all the evidence was introduced, appellant submitted and requested the court to hold as law eighteen other propositions, all of which, except the third, were refused. To the action of the court in refusing these…
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