Beveridge v. Illinois Fuel Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Randolph county; the Hon. Geobqe A. Crow, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice McBride
delivered the opinion of the court.
A judgment was rendered in favor of the appellee in this case for $7,500, to reverse which this appeal was prosecuted.
It appears from the record herein that the appellant was engaged in operating a coal mine in the county of Randolph, State of Illinois, and the appellee was engaged in running a machine used for cutting coal in said mine. The mine manager had directed appellee to cut underneath for a crosscut from room 20 to room 19, off of the south side of the seventh west entry of said mine. Room 20 was driven in from the entry…
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- Eckels v. MuttschallIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
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- Piazzi v. Kerens-Donnewald Coal Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1914
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