Clark v. Murton
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Nathaniel C. Sears, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Gary
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellee’s own version of this case defeats him. He was a carpenter working for the appellants most of the time, in a second story in their shop,' for twenty months.
Hear his bench, during all the time, was an opening in the floor about two and a half by three feet, with a loose cover. Through that opening lumber ivas taken up several times each day, the appellee sometimes assisting, and sometimes himself removing the cover.
Anybody who wanted lumber up, removed the cover.
It had become customary to him to pay little attention to…
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