Leach v. Durkin
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
This appeal is from a judgment of $2,000, entered on a verdict for that amount, in a suit by appellee to recover for injuries received by him through the alleged negligence of appellants.
The errors mainly relied on for a reversal, are directed to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. The specific act charged by the declaration as constituting the negligence relied upon, is the letting fall of a brick or fragment of a brick from the top of a wall being constructed by appellants, upon the head of the plaintiff, who was working below.
At the time of the accident a power house…
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