Independent Tug Line v. Jacobson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in Case, for personal injuries. Trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendant. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Freeman
The third count of the declaration charges that the appellant negligently and carelessly required the appellee to use a fender for the protection of a vessel then being pushed by appellant’s tug between a dock and another vessel standing thirty or forty feet away therefrom, but attached to it by ropes; that the work thus assigned to appellee ivas contrary to his employment, of a dangerous and hazardous character at the time as the captain knew, and appellee did not know. It is on this count appellee relies for recovery.
In support, apparently, of the theory that the order to appellee to place…
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