Illinois Central Railroad v. Accident & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that although a successful party may not agree with the reasoning of a lower court, it is improper to provide that successful party with a forum in a reviewing court
• finding that although a successful party may not agree with the reasoning of a lower court, it is improper to provide that successful party with a forum in a reviewing court
• where claimants could not prove when injury from separate acts of hiring discrimination occurred, damages were properly allocated to the policy in effect when the employment application was made
• discriminatory hiring claims were separate occurrences where each hiring decision involved a “human agency committing a specific act,” and there was no well-defined policy with a discriminatory impact
• Where claimants could not prove when injury from separate acts of hiring discrimination occurred, damages were properly allocated to the policy in effect when the employment application was made
• “Even though a successful party may not agree with the reasons, conclusions or findings of the lower court, it is improper to provide that successful party with a forum in a reviewing court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).