Chicago City Railway Co. v. Enroth
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Windes
Appellee, while working as an employee of appellant repairing an elevator in its car barn in Chicago, received injuries January 13, 1896, by being thrown from a ladder on which he stood at the time, by reason of the alleged negligence of appellant’s foreman in failing to block or fasten the counter-weights of the elevator, and in failing to give appellee any warning of the danger to which he was exposed. Pie brought suit the same year against appellant for his injuries, but in 1899, suffered an involuntary non-suit, and within one year thereafter this suit was commenced for a like purpose.…
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