Legal Opinion

Boden v. Kewanee Coal & Mining Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 13, 1912No. Gen. No. 5599Published

Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Emery C. Graves, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case was before us in Boden v. Kewanee Coal and Mining Company, 157 Ill. App. 484, and the main facts are there stated, and need not be repeated here. That was a second trial. Upon a third trial appellee had a verdict and a judgment for $11,000 from which defendant below appeals.

The evidence favorable to appellee tends to show that at the time of the accident he had been working for appellant about two weeks, but had been trimming coal cars only a little over one week; that he did not know that a car had run away on the track…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Boden v. Kewanee Coal & Mining Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1910

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