Brossman v. Drake Standard Machine Works

This was an action on the case commenced by William Brossman, the appellee, in the circuit court of Cook county, against the Drake Standard Machine Works, the appellant, to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been sustained by the appellee through the negligence of the appellant. The appellee was a truck driver, and while a concrete-mixer, which weighed something like four thousand pounds, was being loaded at the factory of the appellant upon the truck which was being driven by appellee, by means of a crane, a hook upon the end of one of the chains which supported the mixer,…