Eylenfeldt v. Illinois Steel Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass on the case, brought by William Eylenfeldt, against the Illinois Steel Company, to recover damages for a personal injury received while in the employ of the steel company unloading certain cars, caused, as alleged, through the negligence of the steel company.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass on the case, brought by William Eylenfeldt, against the Illinois Steel Company, to recover damages for a personal injury received while in the employ of the steel company unloading certain cars, caused, as alleged, through the negligence of the steel company. The accident resulting in the injury occurred January 17, 1892. Suit was begun on the 27th day of March, 1892, and on the 6th day of May of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
As will be observed, the plaintiff was injured on the 17th of January, 1892, and suit was brought on the 29th day of the following March. What purported to be a declaration was filed, but it stated no sufficient cause of action. No declaration was filed stating a cause of action until January 31, 1895,—more than three years after the accident and more than one year after the Statute of Limitations had run; and the question presented by the record is, whether the Statute of Limitations was a bar to the action when the amended declaration was filed, on the 31st day of January, 1895.
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