Kenna v. Calumet, Hammond & Southeastern Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goodwin
Appellant seeks to reverse a judgment against it for $10,000, recovered by appellee on account of the loss of his left hand while attempting to adjust a coupler on a car operated by appellant. The case went to the jury on a count which set out that appellant was a common carrier engaged in moving interstate traffic; that appellee was- employed by it in connection with such commerce as a switchman; that appellant, contrary to the United States statutes, had in use upon its railroad in moving interstate traffic a car equipped with a certain automatic coupler of such improper construction, and…
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