Court Opinion

ID: 9286314
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-29 16:43:07.189646+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:13:00.964829
License: Public Domain

Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom delivered the opinion of the court. 2. Appeal and error, § 1652*—when erroneous instruction on negligence not cured by correct instruction. In an action to recover for personal injuries where the duty of plaintiff and defendant towards each other is the vital question in the case, error in giving an instruction at plaintiff's request which required defendant to exercise such care as virtually to make it an insurer is not cured by the fact that an instruction was given at defendant’s request which correctly stated the law on the question. 3. Street railroads, § 142*—when instruction on right of person crossing track to rely upon motorman avoiding collision is erroneous. In an action to recover for personal injuries by being struck by a street car in crossing the track at a street crossing, an instruction asked by plaintiff that “the plaintiff as a matter of law had a right to rely upon the duty and ability of the motorman in charge of said street car to so operate and control said street car as to avoid a collision,” is objectionable as being misleading and as taking away from the jury the determination of the fact as to whether the, motorman was in the exercise of ordinary care in controlling his car, or whether he was guilty of a lack of such ordinary care as to bring about the accident. 4. Instructions, § 126*—impropriety of abstract instruction. The giving of an instruction stating an abstract proposition of law, while not reversible error, is not to be commended. 5. Instructions, § 126*—when abstract instruction is erroneous. An instruction stating an abstract proposition of law which is not applicable to the facts in evidence should not be given. 6. Street railroads, § 83*—mutuality of rights and duties of cars and vehicles at crossings. The rights and duties of street cars and vehicles at intersecting crossings are correlative.