Werk v. Illinois Steel Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ; — heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought by Valentine Werk, against the Illinois Steel Company, to recover damages for two personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, as is alleged, in consequence of the negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ; — heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought by Valentine Werk, against the Illinois Steel Company, to recover damages for two personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, as is alleged, in consequence of the negligence of the defendant. The first injury occurred some time in May or June, 1891, and consisted of burns, by means of molten metal, upon the plaintiff’s ankles and the lower part of his legs, and the latter occurred…
1Per curiam
The plaintiff’s counsel have filed in this court the same brief and argument filed by them in the Appellate Court, and a further argument criticising that part of the opinion of that court which sustains the instruction of the trial court requiring the jury to find the issues in relation to the plaintiff’s injury of October 5, 1891, in favor of the defendant. We have carefully examined the record in the light of those arguments, and upon such examination are disposed to concur with the conclusions reached by. the Appellate Court. We think the evidence of contributory negligence on the part of…
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