Weintraub v. John B. Sexton & Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Kiley

delivered the opinion of the court.

■ This is an action under Section 29 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Chap. 48, Par. 166, Ill. Rev. Stats. [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 143.44], based upon an injury to plaintiff’s employee while he was engaged in washing windows of defendant’s building in Chicago. The injured employee was paid an award under the Act. The jury found defendant guilty and assessed plaintiffs’ damages at $4,500. Defendant has appealed.

Hodges, the injured employee, was an experienced window washer at the time of the accident in May, 1941. For more than…