Legal Opinion
Chicago City Ry. Co. v. Keenan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided October 27, 1899PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Action in Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
This is an appeal from a judgment recovered for injuries to the person of appellee through the alleged negligence of appellant.
A large number of witnesses testified at the trial, of whom about twice as many testified for the appellant as for appellee.
Presumably, for the purpose of obviating the possible effect of such preponderance in numbers against her, appellee’s counsel offered the following instruction, which was given;
“ The jury are instructed that the fact that the number of witnesses testifying on one side is larger than the number testifying on the other side, does not necessarily…
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