Reports of Cases Determined in the Appellate Courts of Illinois, Volume 162 |
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accord and satisfaction affidavit Affirmed alleged amount appellant's appellee Assumpsit bill Branch Appellate Court carrier cause of action cause remanded Circuit Court City of Chicago claim Company complainant contract contributory negligence Cook county corporation counsel court erred Court of Chicago Court of Cook damages deceased declaration decree defendant in error delivered the opinion DeWitt county entered evidence executor fence fendant filed May 26 glanders Heard held Illinois injury instructions insured intoxication issue Judge judgment June 16 jury JUSTICE BALDWIN delivered Kiser liable ment mortgage motion Municipal Court negligence notes October term Opinion filed June paid parties passenger payment pellant person plaintiff in error proximate cause question railroad reason record recover refused Reversed and remanded reversible error Rudolph E Sexton Shelbyville statement statute street suit sustained testified testimony thereof tion track trial court verdict witness writ
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Page 405 - Whether the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the injury was a question of fact, also, to be determined by the jury, under proper instructions from the court.
Page 113 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated .person, or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person...
Page 408 - The question always is, was there an unbroken connection between the wrongful act and the injury, — a continuous operation? Did the facts constitute a continuous succession of events, so linked together as to make a natural whole, or was there some new and independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury?
Page 406 - The true rule is that what is the proximate cause of an injury Is ordinarily a question for the Jury. It is not a question of science or of legal knowledge. It is to be determined as a fact, in view of the circumstances of fact attending It.
Page 360 - It was held that it was not error to ask the question; the statute providing that "no person shall be disqualified as a witness in any civil action or proceeding, by reason of his interest in the event of the same, as a party or otherwise...
Page 368 - Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation. Such compensation, when not made by the State, shall be ascertained by a jury, as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 132 - And the said party of the second part, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth covenant and agree to and with the said party of the first part...
Page 462 - Every person desirous of suffering a non-suit on trial shall be barred therefrom unless he do so before the jury retire from the bar, or before the court, in case the trial is by the court without a jury, states its finding.
Page 344 - If a building or any part thereof fall, except as the result of fire, all insurance by this policy on such building or its contents shall immediately cease.
Page 68 - It has been repeatedly held by this court that it is the duty of the owner or operator of a mine to have his mine examined and if it is in a dangerous condition to have the dangerous...