Appellate Court of Illinois, 1917

Harovsky v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Harovsky v. Chicago City Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided May 28, 1917 · McSurely
205 Ill. App. 570; 1917 Ill. App. LEXIS 1233

Harovsky v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

Abstract of the Decision. 1. Street railroads, § 131*—When evidence sufficient to show negligence in causing express wagon to strike pedestrian. In an action against a street railway company and an express company to recover for injuries to plaintiff, received while walking on a sidewalk, through a collision between a street car and an express wagon which caused the wagon to strike plaintiff, evidence examined and held sufficient to support a finding that the street railway company was guilty of negligence. 2. Street railroads, § 149*—when refusal of requested instruction in action for injuries to pedestrian is proper. In an action against a street railway company and an express company to recover for injuries to plaintiff who, while walking on the sidewalk, was struck by an express wagon which had collided with a street car, it is not error to refuse an instruction which is predicated upon a situation in which a plaintiff finds himself suddenly placed in a position of danger and which undertakes to state a defendant’s duty in such a situation. 3. Appeal and error, § 1565*—when modification of requested instruction not reversible error. It is not reversible error for the court to make an addition to a requested instruction which renders it less apt to mislead the jury.

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