Deming v. Hallberg
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Edward M. Mangan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. PRESIDING Justice Holdom
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action for negligently causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate on the trial of which, before court and jury, the trial judge instructed a verdict in favor of defendant, upon which a judgment of nil capiat followed, and plaintiff brings the cause here for review on writ of error.
Plaintiff’s intestate was a janitor in the apartment building owned by defendant for more than two years preceding the accident which resulted in his death. At the time of the accident the building was owned by defendant, although she had no…
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