Case ID: ill-app_191/html/0498-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Abe Korn, Appellee, v. Chicago Railways Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 20,362.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. Fenimobe Coopeb, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed February 24, 1915.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Abe Korn against Chicago Railways Company for damages for personal injuries. • From a judgment for $1,625 against defendant in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Damages, § 124
      
      —amount of verdict for troteen leg and permanent injuries. Where plaintiff sustained a fracture of the fibula of his left leg and other injuries through a fall from a street car which he was attempting to hoard when it started out with a jerk, and his leg was in a cast for two months and it appeared that he suffered great pain, and medical experts testified as to the accident and permanent character of the injuries, to his leg, held, under the evidence, a verdict for $1,625 was not excessive.
    Charles L. Mahony and Frank L. Kriete, for appellant; W. W. Gurley and J. R. Guilliams. of counsel.
    Brown, Brown & Brown, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.