McConkey v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The plaintiff, in an action in tort, obtained a verdict and judgment upon the verdict in the circuit court of Cook county, allowing him damages in the sum of $25,000. He was struck and run over by a car or cars operated by the defendant and, as a result, suffered the loss of an arm and sustained other serious injuries. The defendant brings' this appeal and says that the trial court, at the close of all the evidence, should have granted its request for a directed verdict; that there was error in the giving of plaintiff’s instruction numbered 1; that defendant’s instruction numbered 17 should…