Wing v. Smith
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. Theodore N. Green, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee, Oliver Wing, met with an accident April 16,1912, while in the employ of E. M. Smith, the appellant, resulting in the loss of his left eye. He brought this action on the case to recover for the injury. A jury trial resulted in a verdict and judgment against appellant for forty-five hundred dollars, and he brings the case here for review.
Appellee is a skilled mechanic and had been in the employ of appellant for about ten years before the accident. At the time of the injury he was in charge of three men helping him to do a…
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