Lynch v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Error to Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Max Eberhardt, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1908.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Chytraus
delivered the opinion of the court.
The attorneys for plaintiff insist that in an action of tort against two defendants sued jointly there may properly be separate trials and judgments as to the two defendants and that verdicts and judgments in favor of the plaintiff may even be for different amounts as to the two defendants. The attorneys for the City contend that a judgment rendered in such action against one defendant operates as a discontinuance of the suit as against the other defendant.
Where several persons jointly commit a tort the person injured has his…
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