Godby v. Wilson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. Clyde E. Stone, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, ” 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
In 1915, and for several years before that time, the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad was operated by receivers. On May 1, 1915, Neal Godby, a section hand under said receivers at Pekin, Illinois, while assisting in unloading a carload of railroad ties, had his hand severely injured and was thereby permanently disabled from performing any manual labor requiring the use of both -hands. He sued the receivers to recover damages for said injuries and filed a declaration in which he alleged the injury, and that he and the receivers were then engaged in interstate commerce; that he was injured…
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