East St. Louis Packing & Provision Co. v. Hightower

This was an action on the case, by appellee against appellant, for negligence, resulting in personal injury. The declaration contains but a single count.

The allegation is, that appellee, on the 8th of ¡November, 1874, was an employee, as fireman, in appellant’s pork packing establishment, “ to attend to the furnace and keep up the fire of the engine and boilers, and to assist in oiling machinery connected therewith, and in regulating the supply of water for said boilers, and in blowing the same out as occasion should require; ” and that appellant “ wrongfully and negligently permitted a…