Johnson v. Modern Woodmen of America
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles N. Goodnow, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin
Defendant in error made out a prima facie case, and it devolved upon plaintiff in error affirmatively to establish its defense, that deceased was not in “good health” when he was reinstated on the 14th of June, 1907.
The evidence offered to establish this defense consists largely of the testimony of employers and fellow workmen, and a brother of the deceased, all to the general effect that at different times, during the early months in 1907, deceased was crippled up and unable to work,—sometimes he was lame, and seemed to be in poor physical condition; that he complained of “rheumatics;” that,…
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