Western Wrecking & Lumber Co. v. O'Donnell

'Mr. Justice Adams

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $1,750 recovered by appellee in an action on the case, for alleged negligence against appellant. The declaration avers, in substance, that June 26, 1892, the defendant (appellant here) was engaged in taking down a building at 373 Carroll avenue; that the plaintiff’s intestate ivas a servant emplojmd by the defendant as a laborer in and about the work of taking down the building; that one Solomon I. Shane was the superintendent employed by the defendant, in charge of said work.

“That it thereupon became…