Netcher v. Bernstein
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1902. This is an action on the case brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for injuries received by her while in their employ. Appellants own and run a large retail dry goods store in the city of Chicago.
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Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1902. This is an action on the case brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for injuries received by her while in their employ. Appellants own and run a large retail dry goods store in the city of Chicago. In the basement of their building is along hall from six to eight feet wide. ¡Near the middle of its length a door opens from the packing room. From that room goods sold the day before which are to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ball
Appellants’ objections to the hypothetical question put to the experts called by appellee are as follows :
' 1. It is so long and involved that it is practically useless. It is true that the question is long. This is caused by a minute detail of what counsel framing > it claimed were the manner and nature of the injury and the consequences which followed; but the question is not involved or difficult to follow. The jury, if composed of men of average intelligence, which we must presume, were not thereby misled or befogged.
2. It omits certain essentials of the evidence. When this objection was…
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