Day v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. Frank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
This is an appeal by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company from a judgment of $7,500 for the death of Joseph T. Clappison, its employee.
For more than a year prior to January 30, 1913, Clappison was in the employ of the appellant railway company as one of a gang or crew of bridge carpenters. Mike Hamet was their foreman, and they went from place to place on the company’s line, as ordered, doing bridge, pile driving, carpenter and pipe line work. In the fall of 1912 they were ordered to Savanna, Illinois, where the company was enlarging its turntable connected with its roundhouse.…
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