Beckstein v. Gall

When this case was here with the names of the parties reversed—66 Ill. App. 478—we said that whether there was any other ground for refusing the appellee a judgment on the verdict in his favor, was a question not before us. How it is.

On the evidence it appears that the appellee and a foreman under whom the appellee worked for the appellant, were unloading barrels of salt from a wagon, to which work the foreman had called the appellee. The barrels were open at one end, and the mode of unloading was that each man took hold of the barrel, and lifted it from the wagon to the ground. Probably by…