Ross v. Shanley
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. Appellee recovered a judgment in the circuit court, against appellants, for $2000, which judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court, and appellants now present the record to this court. . The action was case.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. Appellee recovered a judgment in the circuit court, against appellants, for $2000, which judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court, and appellants now present the record to this court. . The action was case. The declaration charged that appellants were engaged in constructing a tunnel for the city of Chicago under the lake, and that appellee was employed as a bricklayer therein; that appellants were negligent in failing to…
1Per curiam
In deciding this case, the Appellate Court delivered the following opinion:
“Appellants’ counsel, in his brief, makes twenty-one different points on account of which he claims that the judgment should be reversed. We think they may all be summarized under four different headings, viz.: First, that the negligence charged was not proven; second, that the hazard was assumed by appellee; .third, that there was a variance between the proof and the allegations of the amended declaration; and fourth, that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the plea of the Statute of Limitations to the…
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