Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Maroney
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Gook County; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellee, a brickmason, recovered a judgment for §2,500 against the appellant, for personal injuries received by him from the falling of a scaffold, upon which he, together with five other brickmasons and two helpers, had started to work on the morning of May 15, 1893, for the purpose of finishing the top of the brick wall of a roundhouse being erected by the appellant.
The particular scaffold upon which the gang of which appellee was one began work on the Monday morning in question, was constructed by carpenters after the…
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