Sweeney v. Max A. R. Matthews & Co.

This court granted the defendant, Max A. R. Matthews & Company, leave to appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District, which had affirmed a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County. The circuit court had entered a judgment for the plaintiff following a jury verdict for $45,000 in his favor.

The plaintiff, who was employed as a carpenter by Hartman-Sanders Company, was injured when using special purpose “concrete” nails which had been purchased from the defendant. When he struck the nails with a hammer, the heads of the first several broke off and were thrown across…