Shea v. Thomas Elevator Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Homer Abbott, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kavanagh
August 11, 1904, appellee, with three other workmen, was engaged on the eighth floor of the Chicago Postoffice, then in process of construction, wheeling- on wheelbarrows from a freight elevator, or hoist, material to be used in the work of construction, and after the barrows had been emptied returning them again to the hoist, where they were lowered to the basement to be again refilled. The hoist was composed of two board platforms, each about 3% feet wide and perhaps 6 feet in length. The platforms were so operated that when one of them was in the basement the other was being delivered at…
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- Parsons v. Hecla Iron WorksMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Illinois Steel Co. v. ZolnowskiAppellate Court of Illinois · 1905
- People ex rel. Groves v. Chicago & Alton RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Cook v. MillerIllinois Supreme Court · 1850
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