Gall v. Beckstein
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action for Personal Injuries.—Error to Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1896.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
The plaintiff here was the plaintiff below, and sued the defendant in error and Augustus E. Beckstein for damages sustained by him because of a broken leg—he being in their service as a laborer.
The suit seems to have proceeded only against the defendant in error.
The first count charged the defendants with negligence in ordering barrels of salt to be unloaded from a wagon by bodily lifting the same out, instead of adopting the usual and proper method of using a skid. The second count charged the negligence to consist in taking him from the safe kind of work for which he was employed, and…
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