Wells Bros. v. Flanagan

Appellee sued appellant and the Oscar Daniels Company, and, September 14, 1906, filed a declaration, averring - substantially as follows: The defendants are corporations, and June 5, 1905, were engaged in the erection and construction of a building at Wabash avenue and Madison street, in the city of Chicago, and plaintiff was a laborer working in and about said building, for a subcontractor, and while plaintiff was so employed and was exercising due care for his safety, the defendants negligently caused a piece of timber to fall from a place above where plaintiff was working and strike…