Legal Opinion

McMahon v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 23, 1909PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter

This is an action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee while a passenger on one of appellant’s electric street railway cars in Halsted street, near Forty-eighth, in the city of Chicago. On a jury trial in the superior court of Cook county appellee recovered a judgment April 20, 1907, for $1850, from which amount the plaintiff remitted $200, on a suggestion of the trial judge that he did not regard the proof as to the services of the physician, amounting to $200, sufficient. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court and the case…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Craker v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
  2. Goddard v. Grand Trunk RailwaySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1869
  3. Chicago & Eastern Railroad v. FlexmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
  4. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. SchmitzIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
  5. Jones & Adams Co. v. GeorgeIllinois Supreme Court · 1907

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Lebrecht v. TuliAppellate Court of Illinois · 1985
  2. People v. WillyIllinois Supreme Court · 1921
  3. The People v. WillsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1948
  4. Sears v. RutishauserIllinois Supreme Court · 1984
  5. State Highway Commission v. Superbilt Manufacturing Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1955

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