Bennett v. Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Will County; the Hon. Robert W. Hilscher, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Higbee
This was a suit brought by appellant against appellee, to recover for injuries occasioned to him while oiling machinery belonging to the latter, in January, 1895.
At the time of the accident and for some time before, appellee was carrying on operations as a contractor upon a portion of the Chicago drainage canal in Will county. In the prosecution of its work appellee used, in hoisting rocks and other debris out of the bed of the caüal and depositing the same upon the bank, a certain ponderous piece of machinery, commonly called a cantalever. Appellant was a sailor, and in 1893 he, in company…
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- Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co. v. BennettAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901