Sible v. Wells Bros.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Dupdy, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Smith
delivered the opinion of the court.
The negligence averred in the first count of the declaration was the failure of appellant to provide for appellee a safe place in which to work.
The following evidence in the record is practically uncontradicted. The witness Koenig, called by appellee, testified that appellee was foreman over the masons and laborers at the Union League Club. “I was working under his (Sible’s) rules and building the platform under his rules, and the men with me were working under his rules and directions. He was about there when the platform was…
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