International Packing Co. v. Kretowicz
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Alonzo K. Vickers, Judge, presiding. Statement by the Court. This is an action for personal injuries in which defendant in error recovered a judgment which it is now sought to reverse. He was injured in a hashing machine, used for cutting or grinding up lard.
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Action on the case for personal injuries. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Alonzo K. Vickers, Judge, presiding. Statement by the Court. This is an action for personal injuries in which defendant in error recovered a judgment which it is now sought to reverse. He was injured in a hashing machine, used for cutting or grinding up lard. The machine consisted of a bench or table with a flat surface, said to be from four and a half to five feet in height from the floor, and standing upon legs. In the top or surface of the table was a round hole about seven inches in diameter, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Freeman
Plaintiff in error, defendant below, urges that it was not guilty of any negligence which can be considered the proxh mate cause of the injury, and that plaintiff assumed the risk and was himself guilty of negligence.
In behalf of defendant in error, plaintiff in the trial court, it is said in argument that the alleged “liability of the defendant is predicated upon the duty of the master to furnish a reasonably safe place and surroundings for its employee to work,” while engaged in operating a dangerous machine containing revolving knives, and also “upon the failure of the master upon…
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