Geist v. Rothschild & Co.

Plaintiff in error brought suit to recover for damages to her resulting from the falling of a coil of rope from a painter’s scaffold suspended above the State street entrance at about the third story of defendant in error’s department store at the corner of Van Burén and State streets, Chicago. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the defendant moved the court to instruct a verdict of nob guilt}', which motion ivas overruled, but at the close of all the evidence the motion was renewed and the court instructed the jury to find the defendant not guilty, and the jury so found, on which…