Webster Manufacturing Co. v. Schmidt

It is the duty of the master to use all reasonable care to employ competent and prudent co-employes. Consolidated Coal Co. v. Haenni, 146 Ill. 614.

The negligence charged against appellant involved questions of fact; first, whether the boy employed to operate the steam hammer was or was not immature, unskillful and careless; second, whether, if the boy was incompetent. appellant knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care and diligence should have known, that he was not a sufficiently careful and prudent person to be put in charge of such work; third, whether appellee knew, and whether he…