Pioneer Cooperage Co. v. Romanowicz
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
Appellee recovered a judgment for-$3000 against appellant for injuries to his left- hand, received while employed in the barrel works of the appellant, this appeal being prosecuted from an affirmance of that judgment by the Appellate Court.
Plaintiff’s declaration consisted of two counts, charging that a barrel press on which he had been at work only a day and a half before the injury, was out of repair, so that it would not respond to a foot lever by which it was directed. The evidence tended to prove that when other employees of the appellant had worked on the machine at different times…
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