Peoria, Bloomington & Champaign Traction Co. v. O'Connor

Peb Curiam.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding appellee $3,000 damages for injuries to his person resulting from the alleged negligence of appellant. The first count of the declaration charges substantially that on December 20, 1906, the defendant was engaged in lifting, moving and working with a certain heavy iron pole with a mass of concrete attached thereto, by means of a derrick and ropes; that the plaintiff was in the service of the defendant as a laborer and was working at the windlass under the foreman of the defendant; that the defendant negligently used an old, weak and…