William Graver Tank Works v. McGee
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon, Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. Heard at the March term, 1895,
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
The defendant in error had one of his eyes knocked out by an iron chip which flew from a steel bar that was being cut with a cold chisel in the works of the plaintiff in error.
He was working as helper to a blacksmith, and on the day in question was engaged in carrying pieces of iron, called manheads, to the forge at which the blacksmith worked, in the southeast corner of the shop, which was about fifty feet wide from east to west, and one hundred feet long from north to south.
The manheads were to be brought to the- forge from a pile situated some twenty feet in a northwesterly direction from…
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