Legal Opinion

Madison Coal Co. v. Caveglia

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided September 8, 1905PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Bill to set aside release. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison County; the Hon. Benjamin R. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1904.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Myees

The appellee, Dominick Caveglia, on the 12th day of September, 1900, was employed by the appellant, Madison Coal Company, and worked in its coal mine number 2, in Madison County, Illinois. He was at that time past sixteen years of age. His work was to stand on the south side of the shaft at the bottom of the mine and pull the empty boxes off the cages onto two tracks called the short tracks. He had been engaged in this work for about two and a half months prior to the date mentioned. The shaft was a double compartment one, with two cages, called the east and west cages respectively. North of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. DriscollIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  2. Vorum v. GormanOhio Court of Appeals · 1953

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. P. K. Kurson, Inc. v. StateCourt of Claims of Illinois · 1975

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