Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rathneau
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Joseph E. Cart, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1905.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Adams
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appéal '■from a judgment 'in favor of appellee and against appellant for the sum of $12,500.
The declaration consists of one count, in which it is averred, in substance, that plaintiff, April 18, 1902, was employed by the defendant as a laborer, to work with a certain gang engaged in loading iron rails on a flat car, at Blue Island, and the defendant had a foreman in charge of plaintiff and said other laborers, engaged as aforesaid, whose orders it was. their duty to obey and who was not plaintiff’s fellow servant, but…
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