Beidler v. Branshaw
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case.—Death from alleged negligence. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Adams
There is only one count in the declaration, the appellee having discontinued as to eight additional counts filed after filing the first count. The negligence relied on is the failure to erect guards about the elevator car so as to protect persons riding thereon from being injured by the lintel above the window.' The face of that part of the wall in the recess north of the floor of the elevator was some ten inches or more north of the north edge of the elevator floor, but when the elevator floor, in its ascent, reached the lintel, the north edge of the elevator floor was only from 1J to 2^-…
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- Hartford Deposit Co. v. SollittIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Hill v. Portland & Rochester RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1867
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