Lake Street Elevated Railroad v. Fitzgerald

Mr. Presiding Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.

The first count avers that the defendant was possessed of a certain railroad and of an electric motor car used thereon; that plaintiff was a servant of the defendant, employed in assisting to move cars on said railroad, and that it was his duty to couple and uncouple cars, etc.; that the defendant should have employed a competent, careful and skilled servant to manage, control and operate the motor car so as to protect the plaintiff from danger, hut that it did not procure and employ a competent, careful and skilled servant so as…