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accident Affirmed alleged amendment answer appellant's appellee appellee's assumpsit attorney averred bill of lading Branch Appellate Court building Carl Moll cause of action charge Circuit Court City of Chicago claim common law Company complainant construction contract Cook county corporation counsel Court of Cook Crane Co damages declaration decree defendant in error defendant's delivered the opinion demurrer dence dismissed duty elevator engine evidence facts fendant floor garnishee Heard held Illinois indorser injunction instruction issue Judge judgment jury Lake county liable March term Masonic Frat ment Minnesota Mut motion negligence ordinance parties personal injuries petitioner plaint plaintiff in error plea pleaded premises proof prosecution question reason record rendered Reversed and remanded Rogers Park rule stairways statement statute street suit Superior Court Supreme Court sustained testified testimony thereof tion track trial court Union Traction Company verdict West Chicago witness writ
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Stranica 230 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence. But where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence in the absence of explanation by the defendant that the accident arose from want of care.
Stranica 112 - ... defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission is cured by the verdict...
Stranica 29 - It may be said that the difference is only one of degree: most differences are, when nicely analyzed. At any rate, difference of degree is one of the distinctions by which the right of the legislature to exercise the police power is determined.
Stranica 428 - No carrier or party in possession of all or any of the property herein described shall be liable for any loss thereof or damage thereto or delay caused by the act of God, the public enemy, the authority of law, or the act or default of the shipper or owner, or for natural shrinkage.
Stranica 377 - But if the grant was for purposes of private advantage and emolument, though the public may derive a common benefit therefrom, the corporation, quoad hoc, is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of persons upon whom the like special franchises had been conferred.
Stranica 49 - Legislature to corporations, whether public or private, that only such powers and rights can be exercised under them as are clearly comprehended within the words of the act or derived therefrom by necessary implication, regard being had to the objects of the grant. Any ambiguity or doubt arising out of the terms used by the Legislature must be resolved in favor of the public.
Stranica 242 - The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages, as if the contract had been performed.
Stranica 247 - Court erred in charging that the measure of damages was the difference between the contract price and the market price at...
Stranica 245 - ... the difference between the contract price and the market value at the time and place of delivery.
Stranica 311 - Act provided for the duration of copyright in books ; and the provisions hereinbefore enacted in respect of the property of such copyright, and of registering the same, shall apply to the liberty of representing or performing any dramatic piece or musical composition, as if the same were herein expressly re-enacted and applied thereto, save and except that the first public representation or performance of any . dramatic piece or musical composition shall he deemed equivalent, in the construction...