Krueger v. Union Gas & Electric Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for death caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Colostin D. Myers, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Philbrick
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action brought to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate caused by an explosion at the plant of the defendant company in Bloomington, Illinois, occasioned by reason of gas escaping in an attempt to make a connection of two pipes in a building at the plant of the defendant company. The charges of negligence in the declaration are that the defendant company negligently and carelessly employed and kept in its employ an incompetent and unreliable superintendent, and that by reason of the negligence of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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