Stevens v. Lewandowski

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an action on the case to recover for personal injuries sustained by the appellee Avhile in the service of the appellant, and a judgment for $5,000 was recovered upon a verdict for that amount.

The declaration consisted of but one count, the material portions of which, as shown by the abstract, were as folIoavs :

“ Defendant Stevens owned a certain factory, used in the manufacture of “shoddy,” and plaintiff was engaged by him as a laborer in said factory; that said process of manufacturing shoddy was wholly new to…