Slack v. Harris
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;-—-heard in that court on appeal-from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;-—-heard in that court on appeal-from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. This is an action on the case, brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for injuries, ■suffered by appellee, while engaged, as an employe of appellant, in operating a passenger elevator in a building on Randolph street in Chicago of which appellant was lessee, and in which building appellant conducted his business. The plea of general issue was filed. The trial resultéd in verdict and judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
First—It is claimed, on the part of the appellant, that the trial court erred in refusing to give to the jury at the close of appellee’s evidence, and again at the close of all the testimony, a written instruction to find appellant not guilty. Whether or not it was erroneous to refuse this instruction depends upon the question, whether the evidence tended to support the cause of action.
There was evidence, tending to show that the appellant was guilty of such negligence as caused the injury to appellee. The engineer, Neff, stood to the appellant in the relation of a vice-principal to a…
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