Tribune Co. v. Emery Motor Livery Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Taylor

delivered the opinion of the court.

About 4:00 A. M., January 3, 1919, one Herbeck, an employee of the "plaintiff, The Tribune Company, while standing on the rear step of a horse vehicle and driving south on State street, Chicago, for the purpose of delivering copies of the Tribune, was run into by a taxicab belonging to the defendant, Emery Motor Livery Company, and seriously injured.

On the ground that plaintiff, and defendant and Herbeck were subject to the Workmen’s Compensation Act [Cahill’s Ill. St., ch. 48, fí 201-236], and the injury was caused solely by the…