United States Ice Co. v. Courts Building Corp.

Plaintiff brought suit under section 29 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (ch. 48, par. 166, Ill. Rev. Stat. [ Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 143.44]) alleging that both it and defendant were operating under the act and that an employee of plaintiff, namely Frank Carrion, came to his death through the negligence of the defendant.

The purpose of section 29 has been stated by Mr. Angerstein in his book on the Workmen’s Compensation Act (page 957) as requiring “indemnification of an employer who has not been negligent out of the recovery against a third person whose negligence caused the injury.”

The…