Legal Opinion

Whitley v. Wright Carriage Body Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 15, 1914No. Gen. No. 5,895Published

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. Robert W. Olmsted, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes

Appellee, Jesse Whitley, a wood worker thirty-three years old, was injured while employed by appellant, Wright Carriage Body Company, in its factory at Mo-line, April 8,1910. He had been employed there about two months and had operated a bandsaw and worked with a boring machine prior to this injury, and on a few occasions had operated for a short time the ‘ ‘ sanding machine” on which he was injured. It was a combination machine and had both a revolving cylinder and a disc covered with sandpaper, against which wood was held to he finished. The disc was forty-two and three-fourths inches in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Streeter v. Western Wheeled Scraper Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Johnson v. Peoria Railway Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1913

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