Raxworthy v. Heisen
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Branch “B” Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel C. Stough, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
On February 2, 1911, Thomas Raxworthy, while working for C. C. Heisen, Sr., plaintiff in error, as a stonecutter in the erection of a building at the corner of Dearborn and Harrison streets, in the city of Chicago, was struck and killed by a large stone which fell to the sidewalk while the stone was being hoisted from the ground. Anna M. Raxworthy and Thomas F. Hunt, as administratrix and administrator, respectively, of the estate of said deceased, brought suit in the circuit court of Cook county against the plaintiff in error and Alexander Shand to recover damages occasioned by the death of…
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