Chicago City Railway Co. v. Taylor
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This was an action in the circuit court of Cook county brought by William Taylor, against the Chicago City Railway Company, to recover for a personal injury.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This was an action in the circuit court of Cook county brought by William Taylor, against the Chicago City Railway Company, to recover for a personal injury. At the time of the accident, September 1,1892, appellant was operating a cable street car line on State street, in the south division of the city of Chicago, which line crossed the intersection of State street with Adams street in that city. The West Chicago Street…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
In appellant’s argument filed in this court it is first contended that the evidence utterly failed to establish appellee’s case, and it was therefore error to refuse appellant’s seventeenth instruction, which was as follows:
“The jury are instructed that the evidence in this case would not justify a verdict for the plaintiff, and your verdict must be for the defendant.”
The defendant did not,upon the close of plaintiff’s evidence nor at the close of all the evidence, move to have the case taken from the jury, nor did it ask to have the jury peremptorily instructed to return a verdict for it,…
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