Alford v. Dannenberg
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. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
In May, 1892, appellee fell from a trestle while working as a carpenter on a shed building for the firm of William Wilkens & Co.,' in Chicago. He brought this suit against appellant, as administrator of the estate of Louis Wilkens, a member of the firm at the time of the accident, and charged that the fall of the trestle was due to the negligence of the firm, through its foreman, in ordering an employee who had been holding or steadying the trestle to leave it unsupported. There was judgment for appellee, and the Appellate Court affirmed the judgment.
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