Chicago West Division Railway Co. v. Klauber
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaby, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, J.
The only assignments of error we need consider in this case, are those which relate to the admission of evidence, and to the instructions to the jury. It is insisted that the court erred in admitting in evidence the first and second sections of the ordinance of the city of Chicago, in relation to bridges.
Municipal ordinances, like private statutes and the statutes of foreign.States, cannot be judicially noticed, and consequently Whenever they are material to an action or defense, they must be specially pleaded. 1 Chitty’s Plead. 216, 220; Goshen and Sharon Turnpike Co. v. Sears, 7 Conn. 86.…
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