Armour v. Czischki
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case.—Death from negligent act. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. George F. Blank®, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
delivered tiie opinion of the Court.
Appellee’s intestate came to her death by slipping into a glue crusher through an unguarded opening in the floor of appellant’s glue factory, where she was at work.
She was unmarried and twenty-seven years of age. Her wages were eighty-five cents a day. She had worked in the factory for at least the year and a half preceding her death, and on that floor for the last preceding three weeks.
Her duties were to carry glue on frames from the ovens to a pile near the opening in the floor through which men dumped the glue from the frames into the hopper that fed the…
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