Baier v. Selke
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson County; the Hon. Richard S. Farrand, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1903.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
Baier and Ohlendorf operated a brewery at Freeport. On one of the upper floors of their brew house was a rice tub in which rice was cooked for purposes connected with brewing. It was six or seven feet high, and six feet wide. An upright shaft came up from a lower floor and passed through the center of the rice tub. This shaft had attached to it in the tub several iron arms or shovels, some extending part way and some almost all the way from the shaft to the side of the tub. These arms revolved with the shaft. Two fixed cross-bars…
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