| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 710 pages
...conductor, thereby injuring him as he stood on the running-board of the car, collecting fares, it is the duty of the court to submit the case to the jury. 2. SAME — when street car conductor is not, as a matter of law, guilty of contributory negligence.... | |
| Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...is. Was it error to dismiss the complaint? Or to present the point in another form, was it the legal duty of the court to submit the case to the jury? The rule is familiar and fundamental, that to anthorize a recovery in such nn action as the present, the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 640 pages
...crossing, and yet that he may have been struck just as he has described. If this be a possibility, it was the duty of the Court to submit the case to the jury, even though the witness's story may be improbable. To quote the language of Mr. Justice FELL, in Callahan... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 948 pages
...the question of proximate or remote cause the evidence is contradictory, or the question is in doubt, then it would be the duty of the court to submit the question to the jury. It is undisputed that Mrs. Pike went out from her house of her own free will,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...the question of proximate or remote cause the evidence is contradictory, or the question is in doubt, then it would be the duty of the court to submit the question to the jury. It is undisputed that Mrs. Pike went out from her house of her own free will,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 2078 pages
...the court was requested to direct а тегdiet for the defendant, the law is clearly settled as to the duty of the court to submit the case to the jury. In Insurance Co. v. Ward, 140 US 76, 11 Sup. Ct. 720, the court said: "There was evidence in the case... | |
| Criminal law - 1896 - 620 pages
...property had been sold for a small amount, under fore, closure, many years previously. It was clearly the duty of the court to submit the case to the jury. The evidence fully warranted the conclusion that the defendant had never bought such stock, and that he... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1406 pages
...verdict in his favor, and he does nothing to waive his rights except to make the motion, It Is then the duty of the court to submit the case to the jury, unless the opposite party Is, upon the evidence, as a matter of legal right, entitled to a verdict... | |
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