Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rathneau

This was an action on the case begun in the superior court of Cook county. The declaration consisted of one count, in which it was averred, in substance, that the plaintiff, April 18, 1902, was employed by the defendant as a laborer to work with a certain gang engaged in loading iron rails on a flat-car at Blue Island; that the defendant had a foreman in charge of plaintiff and said other laborers engaged as aforesaid, whose orders it was their duty to obey, and who was not plaintiff’s fellow-servant but was a vice-principal of the defendant; that plaintiff and his co-laborers, by the…