Jacobi v. Industrial Commission

A writ of error was awarded to Paul E. Jacobi to review a judgment of the superior court of Cook county which confirmed an award against him made by the Industrial Commission of Illinois in favor of Albert Haase. Jacobi owned a building in Chicago and employed Andrew Kehoe, painting contractor, to do some painting there. Kehoe employed Haase, and on May 14, 1928, Haase, while on a ladder preparing to paint the light shaft, was thrown to the floor, a distance of about eighteen feet, by the giving way of the ladder. His skull was fractured and he was taken to a hospital, where he remained…