Browne v. Siegel
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
At the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff the circuit court of Cook county, on motion of the defendant, instructed the jury to find the defendant not guilty. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment rendered on the verdict, and the plaintiff took this his further appeal to this court.
The only question in the case is, did the court err in giving the peremptory instruction.
At the time he was killed Alternar Lavigne was a youth of nineteen years, and was, and had been for the preceding four months, employed by appellee as a porter in its department store in the city of Chicago, and…
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