Wierzbicky v. Illinois Steel Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Error to the Superior Court of Cook County: the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1900. Statement by the Court.—Plaintiff in error was injured January 16,1S97, while in the employ of defendant in error as a laborer at its steel works, by having his hand caught in a rope vffiich revolved on a cylinder or spool, necessitating its amputation.
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Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Error to the Superior Court of Cook County: the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1900. Statement by the Court.—Plaintiff in error was injured January 16,1S97, while in the employ of defendant in error as a laborer at its steel works, by having his hand caught in a rope vffiich revolved on a cylinder or spool, necessitating its amputation. He began suit against the company, a trial of which before the court and a jury resulted in a verdiet finding: the defendant not guilty and judgment thereon, from which…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Windes
Tor plaintiff in error, it is claimed that the court erred in ¡giving the instructions quoted in the statement above, and ;in refusing to permit a certain question on cross-examinaition to be answered.
It is said that the seventh instruction is erroneous in that it singles out particular portions of the evidence and says ¡that that evidence alone does not warrant a recovery, while excluding other evidence bearing upon the same subject. We do not think this instruction is erroneous, for this reason:: ¡because it appears from all the counts of the declaration,-as well as from the evidence in the…
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