Stearns v. Reidy
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Kirk Hawes, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
This was case for personal injuries, by appellee, against appellant, wherein the former recovered judgment in the Superior Court of Cook county for damages, which judgment has been affirmed in the Appellate Court.
Appellee was in the employment of appellant, in his limestone quarry, and on the 27th day of October, 1881, while drilling in a hole which had theretofore been drilled in a stone for the purpose of blasting, exploded a charge of dynamite which had been placed therein, and thereby lost the sight of both his eyes, and was otherwise injured. The charge of dynamite in the hole originally…
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