{ "id": 5427885, "name": "The Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad Company v. Alfred H. Gross, Admr.", "name_abbreviation": "Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad v. Gross", "decision_date": "1890-05-14", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "37", "last_page": "39", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "133 Ill. 37" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill.", "id": 8772, "name": "Illinois Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "54 Ill. 363", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5275404 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ill/54/0363-01" ] }, { "cite": "119 Ill. 259", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 2900820 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/119/0259-01" ] }, { "cite": "54 Ill. 363", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5275404 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/54/0363-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 231, "char_count": 3888, "ocr_confidence": 0.487, "pagerank": { "raw": 2.0958850690822826e-07, "percentile": 0.7609982280820233 }, "sha256": "e37633b3d1d200c7be3df3247aeeb76d99282c9b8666636513f4ca5dafe9dc2c", "simhash": "1:49aabf4afa73a696", "word_count": 682 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:35:59.913163+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "The Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad Company v. Alfred H. Gross, Admr." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Justice Scholfield\ndelivered the opinion of the Court :\nThis was an action for personal injuries, resulting from negligence. Appellee\u2019s intestate, while in the employ of appellant, and engaged in taking up old rails and replacing them with new rails, was struck by one of appellant\u2019s engines, causing injuries'which in a few days resulted in his death.\nTwo grounds are urged for the reversal of the judgment below. The first is, that the Appellate Court should have reversed the judgment of the trial court because the deceased received timely warning of the approach of the locomotive. This was a disputed.point. There is evidence that Phillips, who was the boss of the gang in which the deceased was working, repeatedly informed the men\u2014and'this included the deceased\u2014that they should pay no attention to the trains, but go on with their work. There was evidence sufficient for the consideration of the jury upon this point, and it was therefore not error for the court to refuse to exclude it \u201cfrom their consideration, and to refuse to instruct them to find for appellant. Bartelott v. International Bank, 119 Ill. 259.\nThe second ground of reversal urged is, that \u201cthe Appellate Court ought to have decided whether the verdict was against the law of the ease and the instructions of the court.\u201d It is to be presumed that it did decide this. It held that there was no error in the rulings of the trial court, and affirmed its judgment.\nThe real complaint is, that the Appellate Court did not give the evidence in the record sufficient consideration. But this is a question over which we have no control. Under the law, its decision upon controverted facts is not the subject of review in this court. Where there is no right of review, the decision of the court as to how much and what investigation is required in a particular case must necessarily rest with the court itself. When it has decided, it is presumed that it has done all that is required in order that it may decide, and this can not be rebutted. In the ease cited by counsel\u2014Booth v. Hynes, 54 Ill. 363\u2014the question of fact was reviewable in this \u2022court, and so it is not analogous.\nThe judgment is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Justice Scholfield" } ], "attorneys": [ "Mr. George Willard, for the appellant:", "Messrs. Hynes & Dunne, and Messrs. Duncan & Gilbert, for the appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "The Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad Company v. Alfred H. Gross, Admr.\nFiled, at Ottawa May 14, 1890.\n1. Practice\u2014directing what the verdict shall be. Where there is evidence sufficient for the consideration of the jury in an action against a railway company to recover for a personal injury resulting from negligence, it will not be error for the court to refuse to exclude it from the jury on defendant\u2019s motion, and instruct them to find for the defendant.\n2. Appeal from Appellate Court\u2014presumption in support of the action of that court. On affirmance of the judgment of the trial court by the Appellate Court, it will be presumed that the latter court did decide that the verdict was not against the law of the case and the instructions of the court.\n3. So where there is no right of review of the decision of the Appellate Court, the decision of that court as to how much and what investigation was required in a particular case, must necessarily rest in the court itself. When it has decided, it will be presumed it has done all that is required in order to decide correctly, and this can not be rebutted.\nAppeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;\u2014 heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding.\nMr. George Willard, for the appellant:\nThe Appellate Court should have reversed the judgment of the trial court, as there was not evidence enough to justify the verdict.\nThe Appellate Court ought to have decided whether the verdict was against the law of the case and the instructions of the court. Booth v. Hynes, 54 Ill. 363.\nMessrs. Hynes & Dunne, and Messrs. Duncan & Gilbert, for the appellee." }, "file_name": "0037-01", "first_page_order": 37, "last_page_order": 39 }