Arens v. Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holdom
At the conclusion of plaintiff’s case the trial judge, on the motion of defendant, directed a verdict in its favor, upon which verdict the judgment appealed from was entered.
The action involved the question of interstate commerce, Federal Employers’ Liability Act and the violation of the Federal Safety Appliance Act regarding couplers which shall couple automatically by impact.
We have concluded that the verdict should not have been instructed, but that the case should have gone to the jury on the first, sixth and seventh counts of the declaration. While we do not intend to pass upon the…
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