Hess v. Rosenthal
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for damages. Death from negligence. In the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. Declaration in case; plea of not guilty; trial by jury; verdict and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendants. Heard in this court at the October term, 1894, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
delivered the opinioh of the Court.
The appellants conducted a slaughter house, and employed Alter Uchineck as a common laborer, and his first employment was in salting hides.
On the morning of his death he was put at work, standing upon the top of a box, some four feet high, four feet and a half wide, and five feet and ten inches long, raking cooked offal upon the top of the box, from the opening in a tank standing by the side of, and the bottom on a level with, the top of the box. By the end of the box where he stood was another like box and tank, but, as the declaration and the testimony on…
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