Shields v. J. H. Dole Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in ease for death caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Emery C. Graves, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Willis
Wilbur Barrett, appellee’s intestate, was killed in a grain elevator at Kewanee, in Henry county, on September 12, 1907, and this suit was brought by Frances J. Shields, his administratrix, to recover the pecuniary loss suffered by his next of kin from.his death. The elevator in which the accident occurred was owned by J. H. Dole Company, appellant here, and operated under a lease by Samuel W. MeSpadden, a co-defendant. Barrett was an employe of MeSpadden at the time of his death, and was killed by the fall of a partition between bins No. 2 and 4 in the elevator. The Chicago, Burlington &…
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