Rock v. J. E. Tilt Shoe Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final). Statement by tbe Court.
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Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final). Statement by tbe Court. This is an action by appellee to recover damages for personal injuries, in which the court entered judgment in his favor for $10,000. The plaintiff’s version of the facts relating to the injury is in substance that in June, 1906, he was in the defendant’s employ as an errand boy at the defendant’s shoe factory in Chicago. At the suggestion of an employe of the defendant whom the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Freeman
delivered the opinion of the court.
There are fifteen heads setting ont counsel’s contentions in behalf of the defendant company. The first of these is that the evidence with all it legitimately tends to prove is not sufficient to sustain the verdict in that it does not show that the proximate cause of the injury was negligence of the defendant. Others are that the evidence of appellee to the effect that as he fell down the shaft he was conscious and saw above him a face looking down the shaft is improbable and unbelievable; that it was incumbent upon appellee to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Armour v. GolkowskaIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Diamond Glue Co. v. WietzychowskiAppellate Court of Illinois · 1906
- Illinois Steel Co. v. SwierczAppellate Court of Illinois · 1907