Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Bernhardt
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane County; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term. 1900.
1Opinion of the Court
¡Mr. Justice Higbee
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action on the case by appellee against appeh lant to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while .engaged in the work of putting up ice for appellant.
Appellee was a German laborer fifty-nine years of age, who had lived in this country only six or seven years and could not .speak English. On December 22, 1898, he was engaged in the work of assisting, appellant to fill its ice houses at Elgin, Illinois, from ice on the Fox river. At the place where appellee was injured appellant used a runway or…
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