McBeath v. Rawle
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. Kavanagh, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Wilkin
This is an action by appellee, as administratrix of the estate of Thomas Rawle, deceased, in the superior court of Cook county, to recover damages for wrongfully causing the death of her intestate.
Appellants were stone-setting contractors, and had a contract for setting the cut stone on the Historical building in the city of Chicago. Thomas Rawle, the deceased, was in their employ, working upon this building by the day, as an expert stone-setter. The first count of the declaration avers, that on the 16th day of May, 1893, the defendants were prosecuting the work on this building, and provided…
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