Devine v. Union Elevated Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McGoorty
Defendant’s counsel rely upon a reversal of the judgment upon the following assignments of error: That the court erred (a) in the admission of certain evidence on behalf of plaintiff; (b) in its refusal to give to the jury certain instructions requested by defendant; and (c) that the verdict is contrary to the weight of the evidence.
Defendant’s counsel, by their first assignment of error urge that the court erred in permitting three of plaintiff’s expert witnesses to testify that the standard custom in wiring equalizing switches in high tension electrical generating plants is to wire them in…
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