Webster Manufacturing Co. v. Mulvanny
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding. In October, 1892, the Webster Manufacturing Company was making certain improvements and additions to its factory in Chicago, including which was the putting in of a new engine. An iron steam-pipe, ten inches in diameter and about one hundred feet long, carried the steam from the boilers to this engine.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding. In October, 1892, the Webster Manufacturing Company was making certain improvements and additions to its factory in Chicago, including which was the putting in of a new engine. An iron steam-pipe, ten inches in diameter and about one hundred feet long, carried the steam from the boilers to this engine. The engine had been run for several days by the contractors who had installed it, and had just been turned over to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
It is not entirely apparent from the record whether the explosion, which resulted in the death of appellee’s intestate, occurred from a defect in the steam-pipe, of which defect appellant had knowledge, or whether it occurred from the carelessness or incompetency of the engineer of appellant, or from some unavoidable accident which appellant could not guard against. This question, however, has been fully and completely settled adversely to appellant by the judgments of the trial and Appellate Courts. Negligence charged against a defendant is so seldom a question of law, that in the majority…
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