Gardner v. International Shoe Co.

This is an appeal from eight' judgments of $1,200 each and one judgment of $1,000 entered in the same case by the circuit court of Madison county, in favor of the plaintiffs in the trial court and against the International Shoe Company, appellant. The suit was brought jointly by eight husbands and wives and one individual to recover damages, charging appellant, who will be hereinafter referred to as defendant, with improper conduct in the operation of its tannery and a settling basin used in connection therewith, in the village of Hartford, Illinois, and alleging that as a result of such…