Wells & French Co. v. Miskowicz
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Case. In the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Francis Adams, Judge, presiding. Declaration; plea, not guilty; trial by jury; verdict and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendant. Heard in this court at the March term, A. D. 1893.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court,
Gary P. J.
The appellee was in the service of the appellant as a laborer, and was injured while assisting to unload from a wagon some heavy timbers. He alleges that he was pushed into a dangerous place by the foreman and ordered to work there.
On that occasion it seems to have been the manner of unloading the timbers, which, being much longer than the wagon, projected several feet beyond the hind end' of it, that several men, of whom the appellee was one; lifted the rear end of the timber and carried it to a rest on the hind wheel of the wagon on the side from which the…
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