Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Chancellor
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;■—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. This action was brought by appellee, as administrator of the estate of Josephine H. Johnson, deceased, to recover damages from appellant for-causing the death of appellee’s intestate.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;■—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. This action was brought by appellee, as administrator of the estate of Josephine H. Johnson, deceased, to recover damages from appellant for-causing the death of appellee’s intestate. The declaration contains two counts, in the first of which it is alleged that while the decedent, at Kensington, in Cook county, was with all due care and diligence in the act of walking from appellant’s railway station up to and upon its passenger…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The principal error assigned by appellant, and relied on as a reason for reversal of this judgment, is on the admission of improper evidence by the trial court. Over the objection of appellant a witness, Mrs. Laura Stangnan, was permitted to testify for appellee that she was at the house of Mrs. Johnson between seven and eight o’clock on the morning in question, and that Mrs. Johnson was getting ready to go to the city to get a dress, and that she said she was going on the nine o’clock train because that would take her near to Siegel & Cooper’s. At the time this was said she was getting her…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. PillsburyIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
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