Illinois Central Railroad v. Weiland
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Nathaniel C. Sears, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion oe the Court.
The appellee was in the service of the appellant as a switchman, and at the time of the trial, which was about two and a half years after he received the injury for which he sued, he was thirty-five years of age. The direct injury received by him resulted in the amputation of three fingers of his left hand at the knuckles, and the crooking of his little finger at the first joint. He had worked as switch-man seven years, and at the time of the accident was earning from $3 to $4 a day. His greatest earnings since the accident have…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Hough v. Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Northern Pacific Railroad v. HerbertSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Chicago Anderson Pressed Brick Co. v. SobkowiakIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
- Missouri Furnace Co. v. AbendIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
- Swift & Co. v. FosterAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Althardt v. Consolidated Coal Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1910