Kenna v. Calumet, Hammond & Southeastern Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Second Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Elon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
Michael J. Kenna, a switchman in the employ of the Calumet, Hammond and Southeastern Railroad Company, recovered a judgment for $10,000 in the circuit court of Cook county for the loss of his hand by being crushed between two cars on the tracks of the company within the plant of the By-Products Coke Corporation. The railroad company appealed to the Appellate Court, where the judgment was affirmed, and the record has been brought before us for review by writ of certiorari.
The case was submitted to the jury on two counts, the first of which charged the defendant with a violation of the Federal…
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