Galena & Southern Wisconsin Railroad v. Haslam
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county; the Hon. William Brown, Judge, presiding.
1Per curiam
When the jury were being impanelled, several of the jurors answered, in reply to questions propounded by counsel for the company, they were not Grangers or Patrons of Husbandry; that they had no prejudice against railroad corporations; that they could decide a case between a railroad corporation and an individual in the same impartial manner they would between two individuals, and were then, severally, ashed the following question: “In case the evidence is equally balanced between the railroad company and an individual, which way would you decide?” The court sustained the objection interposed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ottawa Gas-Light & Coke Co. v. GrahamIllinois Supreme Court · 1864
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