Muenter v. Moline Plow Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. William H. Gest, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
Carl Muenter, appellee, had the fingers of his right hand crushed while working for appellant, Moline Plow Company, at a drop hammer machine, October 11, 1906. This action is brought to recover for that injury, and resulted in the court below in a verdict and judgment for $5,654.46, from which this appeal is prosecuted. The machine consisted of an anvil with a hammer weighing about six hundred pounds suspended eighteen or twenty inches above the plate of the anvil; a pedal near the floor was used-to release the hammer, which then fell to the anvil and raised to its first position where it was…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Kellyville Coal Co. v. StrineIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. BragonierIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
- Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad v. FlynnIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Chicago City Railway Co. v. LowitzIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- Hampton v. Chicago & Alton RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
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- Muenter v. Moline Plow Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1915