Craig v. Boudouris

Appellee, a waitress in appellants’ restaurant, in East St. Louis, sued to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of a colored porter in the employ of appellants. In addition to the general issue appellants pleaded specially that at the time in question they were conducting a mercantile establishment, an enterprise in which statutory and municipal regulations were imposed for regulating, guarding, use and plac- . ing of machinery and appliances, and for the protection and safeguarding of their employees and the public therein; that by reason…