Joliet Steel Co. v. Shields

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Will' county; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, by appellee, against appellant. The declaration contains two counts. The first alleges possession by appellant, on August 1, 1887, of a steel mill, and that on that date the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as a track repairer, and that it was the plaintiff’s duty to repair a certain railroad track within the converting mill; that on that day the appellant, by its servants, was…