Hartley v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Freeman
This is an action to recover for personal injuries. The case has been here before (90 Ill. App. 284) and its history is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court found in the 197th Ill. 440. It was there held that whether the plaintiff assumed the risk of being injured through the negligence of other employees not fellow-servants within the rule, and whether if injured by a fellow-employee he and that employee were fellow-servants, were questions which under the evidence the plaintiff was entitled to have submitted to a jury.
As now presented neither of those questions are before…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Upton v. TribilcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- George v. TateSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. LewisIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Hartley v. Chicago & Alton RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. LeeIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
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