Illinois Steel Co. v. Hanson

This is an action on the case, begun by Henry Hanson in the superior court of Cook county to recover damages for an injury to his leg, occasioned by the negligence of the appellant company, by whom he was employed. The declaration, in substance, alleged that plaintiff was employed by the defendant to take care of certain tools, chains, ropes, etc., used in defendant’s steel mill; that defendant, in the operation of its mill, from time to time had occasion to remove therefrom certain defective steel rails, called “cobbles,” and pile the same outside the mill; that “if the said hot cobbles were…