McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Burandt
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtGary, P. J.
This is an action by the appellee to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by him while employed in the foundry of the appellant. The fact and manner of the injury and. the amount of damages are not in question.
The foundry was a building 300 feet long, and eighty feet wide. Sunken in the floor of the foundry extending 'from very near the center of. the building, each way to the ends, where three lines of “ conveyors ” about thirty feet apart, and those nearest the sides of the building, about thirteen feet therefrom. They consisted of troughs which, when covered with two-inch plank,…
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- Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. CobleIllinois Supreme Court · 1885
- Fairbank v. HaentzscheIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
- Start v. MoranAppellate Court of Illinois · 1888
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