Legal Opinion

World's Columbian Exposition Co. v. Lehigh

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 8, 1901PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; The Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding Heard in this court at the October term, 1900.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Adams

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee and against appellant for the -sum of 82,000, rendered in an action on the case for injuries to the person of appellee, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of appellant’s employe, who, it is averred in the declaration, was not a fellow-servant of appellee.

The salient and vital facts in evidence are substantially undisputed, and we are unanimously of opinion, from the facts, that the employe of appellant, whose negligence or inadvertence caused the injuries…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lehigh v. World's Columbian ExpositionAppellate Court of Illinois · 1896

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Fry v. RadzinskiAppellate Court of Illinois · 1905
  2. People v. PowersAppellate Court of Illinois · 1917
  3. Westfall v. AlbertAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903

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