Illinois Steel Co. v. Brenshall

We will first consider the charge of negligence. The plaintiff, John Brenshall, had worked for the defendant, the Illinois Steel Co., about ten years at the time of the accident. May 21, 1906, he had been working on the pouring platform at defendant’s plant about three weeks. The pouring platform was what the men stood on to pour molten metal into the molds, which metal was brought to the platform from the furnaces in ladles and in a molten state. The ladles were moved by a crane. The building lengthwise was north and south, and the platform was at the west side of the building and also ran…