North Chicago Street R. R. v. Conway
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Trial in the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Freeman,
after making the foregoing state-. ment, delivered the opinion of the court.
It is claimed that appellee is entitled to recover, because it is said he was ordered to do work outside of his regular employment, without warning of its dangerous character; that the position of the hook was the immediate cause of the accident, and that it was placed in this position by one of appellant’s servants, not a fellow-servant of appellee, and that the latter was in the exercise of ordinary care.
Whether the work of coupling was in fact outside of his regular employment is to be…
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