Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Snedaker
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. W. W. Duncan, Judge, presiding. Appellee recovered judgment for $6000 against appellant, in the circuit court of Williamson county, for injuries received while acting as one of its freight conductors.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. W. W. Duncan, Judge, presiding. Appellee recovered judgment for $6000 against appellant, in the circuit court of Williamson county, for injuries received while acting as one of its freight conductors. At the time of the injury, September 7, 1903, appellee was about forty years of age and had been engaged in rail-reading seventeen years. He was then, and had been for some ten months, a freight conductor on appellant’s road running from Marion to Thebes,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Appellant urges that the court should have directed a verdict for the defendant on the fourth count of the declaration on the ground of variance between the count and the proof given to support it, insisting that the count charges that the defective appliances, chains and couplings were upon the car to be switched in onto the stub-track, whereas the proof showed that they were upon the car' from which said car so to be switched was uncoupled. We think a fair reading of the entire count shows that this criticism is not well taken. The admission of evidence on this question of defective…
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