Edward Hines Lumber Co. v. Ligas
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. This is an action, brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for a personal injury. The injury occurred on January 30,1894. The appellant owned a lumber yard in the city of Chicago.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. This is an action, brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for a personal injury. The injury occurred on January 30,1894. The appellant owned a lumber yard in the city of Chicago. On the day in question, appellant’s foreman took appellee to a pile of lumber in appellant’s yard, and ordered him to ascend to a scaffold upon the side of the pile for the purpose of handing down lumber therefrom. In obedience…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The opinion of the Appellate Court, rendered upon the decision of this case, correctly disposed of the questions involved, and is adopted as the opinion of this court. That opinion is as follows:
“A master is bound to the exercise of reasonable care with reference to all the appliances of his business, and is bound to protect his servants from injury therefrom by reason of latent or unseen defects, so far as such care can do so; but the master is not an insurer to his servant against injury, and is only chargeable for damage happening to his servant from defective appliances when negligence…
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