Raxworthy v. Heisen
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913. Reversed and remanded on original hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit to recover damages on account of the death of appellee’s intestate, Thomas Raxworthy, occasioned, as alleged in the declaration, by the negligence of. appellant and his codefendant, Alexander Shand, whom the jury found not guilty. The verdict as to Shand was set aside, and the case as to him was then dismissed. This appeal is from a judgment against Heisen.
Raxworthy’s death resulted from the breaking of a cable used as a guy line to the mast of a derrick, thus causing the fall of a stone that was being hoisted in…
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