Hartford Deposit Co. v. Pederson

The Appellate Court has affirmed a judgment for §3000 in this case, against appellant, for. a personal injury received by appellee by the falling of an elevator owned and operated by appellant, in which he, appellee, was descending as a passenger from an upper story in appellant’s building in Chicago. Counsel undertook to preserve the questions of law which have been argued in this court, by moving the trial court, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, to instruct the jury to find for the defendant. This motion was overruled and the defendant then adduced its evidence, and at the close of…