Richardson v. Wells Bros.

This was an action on the case for personal injuries sustained by Wilbur Richardson while in the employment of Wells Brothers Company. Appellee, the plaintiff, recovered a judgment in the Superior Court of Cook county, and appellant, the defendant, now seeks a reversal of the same.

The plaintiff at the time he received the injuries of which he complains was at work wrecking an alley about thirty feet wide, extending north and south from Randolph to Washington streets, between the old and new structures of the Marshall Field building. The space underneath the alley, called a basement, was used…