Chicago, Wilmington & Vermilion Coal Co. v. Brooks

This appeal is prosecuted by the defendant to reverse a judgment in the sum of $5,000 entered against it by the Circuit Court in an action in case for the recovery of damages for personal injuries.

The declaration consisted of an original count and an additional count. The original count charges that the plaintiff was a driver in the employ of the defendant, in its coal mine; that it was the duty of the plaintiff, and he was directed by defendant, to place a car of coal on a track; that at such track was a switch lever and apparatus that was dangerously and improperly constructed; that while…