Illinois Steel Co. v. McConnell
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Host. George A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is a suit to recover for personal injuries suffered by appellee while in appellant’s employ. The declaration contains three counts.
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Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Host. George A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is a suit to recover for personal injuries suffered by appellee while in appellant’s employ. The declaration contains three counts. The first of these avers that plaintiff was employed by defendant to assist other employees in elevating heavy pieces of beams of iron and steel to be used in building a solid floor over certain ore bunkers, which pieces of iron had to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Feeeman
There is no material conflict in the evidence as to material facts upon which the determination of this case mainly rests. Appellant at the time of the accident was operating a double track railroad upon a high trestle over which it ran cars loaded with oar and other material for blast furnaces, which material was dumped from said cars into the tops of pockets or bins erected in double rows either side of said tracks. Upon the ground underneath this trestle was another railroad track upon which ran a car used to take the material from the bottom of these pockets to where it was dumped into a…
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