Reports of Cases Determined in the Appellate Courts of Illinois, Volume 92 |
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... deceased , in order to supply the want of other proof of due care at the time of the injury , but such evidence is admissible only as a matter of necessity in the absence of better proof . 2. SAME - Testimony of Witnesses Before a ...
... deceased , in order to supply the want of other proof of due care at the time of the injury , but such evidence is admissible only as a matter of necessity in the absence of better proof . 2. SAME - Testimony of Witnesses Before a ...
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... Deceased and a companion named Sweet , were driving in a covered buggy with the top up , and attempted to cross the tracks of appellee , and while so doing were struck by a passenger train and both killed . The declaration contained ...
... Deceased and a companion named Sweet , were driving in a covered buggy with the top up , and attempted to cross the tracks of appellee , and while so doing were struck by a passenger train and both killed . The declaration contained ...
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... deceased and his com- panion , Sweet , who both lived at Nunda , some five or six miles north of Cary , drove down to the latter place in a single buggy , arriving at Cary between three and four o'clock . During the evening they ...
... deceased and his com- panion , Sweet , who both lived at Nunda , some five or six miles north of Cary , drove down to the latter place in a single buggy , arriving at Cary between three and four o'clock . During the evening they ...
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... deceased and his companion instantly . Cary was not a stopping point for this train , which was due there at that time , at S : 40 P. M. The time at which it . passed through the village on the evening of the collision is not fixed with ...
... deceased and his companion instantly . Cary was not a stopping point for this train , which was due there at that time , at S : 40 P. M. The time at which it . passed through the village on the evening of the collision is not fixed with ...
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... deceased and his companion came to their death by being struck by the passenger train of appellee on the railroad crossing in Cary , found further , as follows : " We further find that the aforesaid company is responsible for said ...
... deceased and his companion came to their death by being struck by the passenger train of appellee on the railroad crossing in Cary , found further , as follows : " We further find that the aforesaid company is responsible for said ...
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Page 350 - ... although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 349 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 436 - KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, , as principal, and , as sureties of the County of Cook and State of Illinois, are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the penal sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for the payment of which...
Page 659 - The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 349 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 467 - First it is my will and I do order that all my just debts and funeral expenses be duly paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently can be after my decease.
Page 496 - Each house, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, shall choose its own officers, may determine its own rules of proceeding, punish its members for disorderly conduct; and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member...
Page 446 - No new law shall be construed to repeal a former law, whether such former law is expressly repealed or not, as to any offense committed against the former law, or as to any act done, any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred, or any right accrued or claim arising under the former law...
Page 24 - Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine, within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly to be a physician and to prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters
Page 350 - ... the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation with reference to the pecuniary injuries, resulting from such death, to the wife and next of kin of such deceased person...