Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Conway
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. C. G. Neeley, Judge, presiding. This was an action brought by William R. Conway, against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, to recover for an injury received on November 22,1892, at Twenty-first street, in Chicago.
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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. C. G. Neeley, Judge, presiding. This was an action brought by William R. Conway, against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, to recover for an injury received on November 22,1892, at Twenty-first street, in Chicago. At that street crossing the defendant maintained gates which were operated from a tower-house situated near the north-west corner of the intersection of the tracks of the defendant with the street, and just west of the westernmost…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
Upon request of the plaintiff the court gave to the jury two instructions, both of which are claimed to be erroneous.
Numerous objections have been urged against plaintiff’s first instruction, but we have not the time, nor would it serve any useful purpose, to follow counsel in his extended argument in reference to the instruction. We do not regard the instruction as entirely free from criticism, but we do not think that it contains anything calculated to mislead the jury. In the first part of the instruction the jury were directed that if they believed, from the evidence, that the defendant…
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