Allen B. Wrisley Co. v. Burke
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Russell P. Goodwin, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Windes
The evidence, in substance, among other things not necessary to be here stated, shows that plaintiff was employed by one Lockwood, an engineer and foreman of defendant, two or three weeks prior to his injury, which occurred on June 24. 1896, to work in the boiler room of defendant’s ' soap factory, in a basement of a building on Fifth avenue, in Chicago; that his duties were to take ashes out of the ash pits from underneath the boilers, assist the firemen, do what he was told to do by the foreman, and at times .he was directed to and did siphon, by means of a hose, water which collected in…
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