Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Industrial Commission

This court allowed the petition of Libby, McNeill & Libby for a writ of error to review a judgment of the superior court of Cook county confirming an award of the Industrial Commission in favor of Fannie B. Reddick, the mother of Currie Reddick, on account of Mrs. Reddick’s claim that her son received an accidental injury on June 25, 1925, from which pneumonia developed, causing his death July 3, 1925.

Currie Reddick was nineteen years old and resided with his father, mother and younger members of the family. On the 25th of June, 1925, Reddick, in company with four other men, worked for…