Grace & Hyde Co. v. Probst
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
Appellee brought this suit in the superior court of Cook county against appellant, a corporation engaged, in the contracting- business, to recover damages for a. personal injury suffered in its employ. The declaration consisted of a single count, which alleged that on January 8, 1900, plaintiff was in defendant’s employ as a carpenter’s helper; that outside of the building where plaintiff was working, a gang of men were cutting and breaking beams of iron and steel by cutting by hand and then raising the beams several feet and suddenly dropping them on a block; that said work was extremely…
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