53 Ill. App. 2d 340 - Marut v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis

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29 state decisions

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1. ““This evidence is admissible as going to the question of the appellant’s damages. She had testified that she earned a certain amount of money each week and that she planned to return to work as a waitress at the time of her second accident. This testimony shows that she could not have returned to work as a waitress, and shows that her earning power may have been reduced by the first accident with which the appellees here had nothing whatsoever to do. Such evidence is also admissible to show that the appellant’s claimed total disability was not due solely to the second accident. The evidence quoted above is relevant and highly probative of the proposition that all the appellant’s disability did not arise from this latter accident, but none of this evidence has anything to do with causation of the injury to the lower spine.” Marut v. Costello (1964), 53 Ill. App. 2d 340, 360-61 , 202 N.E.2d 853 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 147 Ill. App. 3d 534 - Thatcher v. Commonwealth Edison Co.