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Reivitz v. Chicago Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

  • 158 N.E. 380
  • 327 Ill. 207

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  • the test of the correctness of an instruction is not what meaning the ingenuity of counsel can attribute to it, but how and in what sense, under the evidence before them and the circumstances of the trial, ordinary persons acting as jurors will understand the instruction
  • the test of the correctness of an instruction is not what meaning the ingenuity of counsel can attribute to it, but how and in what sense, under the evidence before them and the circumstances of the trial, ordinary persons acting as jurors will understand the instruction

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Judges: Thompson

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