Hess v. Hoyt
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Frank L. Hooper, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice George W. Thompson
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 7th of January, 1910, Iven J. Hoyt was engaged in felling a tree about fifty feet high situated in a lot about twelve feet south of the south line of Elm street in Watseka. The tree leaned slightly to the north and he desiring to make the tree fall to the south tied a rope to it about thirty-five feet from the ground. The other end of the rope was tied to a tree ninety feet south in the lot, but the rope was left slack. He cut into the tree first on the- south side then on the north side with an axe.
Mrs. Mary J.…
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