Wells v. O'Hare

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District affirming a judgment in the sum of $2500 entered in the circuit court of Cook county against the appellant and in favor of the appellee, as administrator of the estate of Michael Corbett, deceased. The declaration was in case, and claimed damag'es for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate by the alleged negligent act of defendant, and averred “that the defendant, regardless of his duty in the premises, carelessly and negligently threw or caused to fall from a great height, to-wit, forty feet above where the…