Lyons v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Under an amended declaration the defendant in error recovered damages of $7000 in the circuit court of Cook county against the plaintiff in error for injuries alleged to have been sustained February 1, 1908, by being struck by a street car snow plow. On appeal from a judgment of the circuit court the Appellate Court required a remittitur of $2500 or the judgment would be reversed and the cause remanded. That amount was remitted and judgment entered for $4500. The case has been brought here by writ of certiorari.

Defendant in error was a practicing physician about fifty-four years of age. On…