Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Woods

Alexander, Jv

delivered the opinion of the court.

At a former day of this Court this case was affirmed without a written opinion. A suggestion of error filed by appellant particularly directs our attention to its instruction No. 3, which is as follows: “The court instructs the jury for the defendant that there can be no recovery of punitive damages in this case.”-

Our attention is called in this connection to the amount of the verdict in the sum of $1500. We are compelled to construe the verdict as including only actual damages, since no other assumption may be indulged except that the jury…