Gibson v. Sziepienski
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. George Driggs, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtWaterman, J.
Valentine Sziepienski, having a son who worked in the factory of appellants, went there to take his son’s dinner to him. Entering a passageway that led to an elevator shaft, he fell down it and was killed.
The declaration in the case charges that on the 13tli of March, 1888, defendants possessed, occupied and used a certain factory building, within which there was a certain hole, opening or shaft on the first floor of the first story of the building, through which an elevator passed up and down from the basement to the upper floors of said building. That it was the defendants’ duty to have and…
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- Severy v. NickersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Victory v. . BakerNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Murray v. McLeanIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- Illinois Central Railroad v. CarraherIllinois Supreme Court · 1868
- McGill v. ComptonIllinois Supreme Court · 1872
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- Bennett v. ButterfieldMichigan Supreme Court · 1897
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