Shayne v. Coliseum Building Corp.

This is an appeal of the defendant James O. Mullen from a judgment entered in the superior court of Cook county on the jury’s verdict of $3,000 on account of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by Solomon Shayne, plaintiff, as the result of a fall while attending a boxing exhibition in the Coliseum. The Coliseum Building Corporation was also made a party defendant, but the jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to the Coliseum company at the direction of the trial court.

The plaintiff’s declaration consisted of five counts, but it is indicated by the plaintiff that he relies on…