Wabash Railroad v. Propst
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macon County; the Hon. Edward P. Vail, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1900.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Presiding Justice Harker
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee recovered a judgment of $2,000 against appellant in a suit for personal injuries sustained by him while in the service of appellant repairing car tracks in its yards at Decatur.
The negligence charged- in the declaration was the furnishing of an improperly constructed air-jack used by appellee and his co-employe to elevate cars, which broke and let a car down upon him.
At the time of the accident, appellee had been in the employ of appellant as a truck repairer, in its yards at Decatur, for about sixteen months. In the…
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