Calumet Iron & Steel Co. v. Martin

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District, affirming a judgment of the Superior Court of Cook county, in an .action on the case, brought by appellee, against appellant.

Appellant operated iron and steel works at Cummings, in Cook county, and appellee’s intestate, at the time of receiving the injuries whereof he died, was in its employ as a fireman. His duties were' to assist in keeping up the fires under the boilers, of which there were eighteen, constituting a battery, and in cleaning them. One-half of the boilefs were cleaned each Sunday. They were…