Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Laack
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 was an action on the case, by appellee, against appellant, to recover for a personal injury alleged to have been received through the negligence of appellant. For several years before the accident appellant had been engaged in burning brick, and appellee worked as its servant in that business.
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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 was an action on the case, by appellee, against appellant, to recover for a personal injury alleged to have been received through the negligence of appellant. For several years before the accident appellant had been engaged in burning brick, and appellee worked as its servant in that business. In 1887 appellant commenced burning brick with crude oil for fuel, and appellee, before his injury, had assisted in burning several…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shops
At the close of appellee’s case in chief, appellant moved the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and this being denied, again, at the close of the case, ashed and the court refused an instruction directing the jury to find for the defendant. This ruling of the court is assigned as error, and forms the chief ground of complaint in this court.
If there is in the record evidence upon which a verdict for plaintiff may be sustained, the court committed no error in not taking the case from the jury. It is only where the evidence, with all fair and legitimate inferences…
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