Papke v. G. H. Hammond Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon, S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. This is an action on the case, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error to recover, damages for personal injuries, sustained by the plaintiff in error, while working for the defendant in error in the latter’s packing house.
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Writ of Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon, S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. This is an action on the case, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error to recover, damages for personal injuries, sustained by the plaintiff in error, while working for the defendant in error in the latter’s packing house. The trial in the court below resulted in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in error for $8000.00. An appeal from this judgment was taken to the Branch Appellate Court…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—The finding of facts, originally made by the Appellate Court, and the amendment thereof subsequently allowed, must be read together as one finding of facts. By the finding of facts, made by the Appellate Court, that court found that the release, executed by the plaintiff in error and introduced in evidence by the defendant in error upon the trial below, was a bar to the right of recovery in this suit by the plaintiff in error. The Appellate Court has embodied in its judgment' a finding, that the release was a valid writing, and that by it plaintiff in error released and forever…
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