Pennington v. Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
■Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Homer Abbott, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
This was an action on the case commenced by the plaintiff in the superior court of Cook county against the defendant to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of his wrongful ejection at Hyde Park station, in the city of Chicago, from one of the suburban trains of the defendant upon which he was a passenger, on the evening of December 10, 1893. The general issue was filed and a verdict was returned in the plaintiff’s favor for $4500, upon which judgment was rendered. That judgment having been affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District, the record has…
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