Illinois Steel Co. v. Swiercz
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Linus C. Ruth, Judge, presiding. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook county for $2,800 in favor of the appellee, who was plaintiff in that court, against appellant, who was defendant there. The declaration in the cause was in two counts.
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Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Linus C. Ruth, Judge, presiding. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook county for $2,800 in favor of the appellee, who was plaintiff in that court, against appellant, who was defendant there. The declaration in the cause was in two counts. In the first count it is charged that the defendant operated a rolling mill and had employed the "plaintiff as a common laborer for hire; that the plaintiff’s duty was to do everything in and about the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Mb. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
The contention of appellant that there is in the record in this case no evidence which tends to support the plaintiff’s case is not well taken.
The plaintiff was injured December 30, 1902, while working in the converting mill of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago. He had been a workman of the company for a number of years.
The molten metal after it came from the converters was poured into a ladle and from this ladle poured into molds which rested on small cars which ran upon a narrow gauge track north and south through the…
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- Peaslee v. GlassIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
- Slack v. HarrisIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
- Hartrich v. HawesIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
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