Wachuta v. Chicago Railways Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1920.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomson
By this writ of error the plaintiff Wachuta seeks to reverse the judgment entered in the superior court of Cook county, in favor of the defendants, following a directed verdict at the close 'of all the evidence. The suit was for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff in a collision between a two-horse truck he was driving and an electric street car operated on one of the defendants’ lines in the City of Chicago, on February 12, 1917.
The declaration filed by the plaintiff, an employee of Fuhrman & Forster, against the defendants, set up a common-law right of action to’which the defendants…
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