Drake Standard Machine Works v. Brossman

This is an appeal from a judgment for the sum of $2,000 recovered by appellee against appellant. The declaration consists of two counts. In the first count it is averred, in substance, that March 5, 1903, the defendant was engaged in the business of manufacturing heavy machinery at, to-wit, 300 W. Jackson boulevard, in the city of Chicago, and there maintained a factory in which it carried on said business, and which was provided with divers cranes, hoists, etc., and other devices for lifting and handling said machinery; and on said day plaintiff had control of and was managing a team of…