Hedge v. Midwest Contractors Equipment Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of $175,000, entered on a jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Cook County on March 13,1963, against defendant, Midwest Contractors Equipment Company, and from an order entered on April 26, 1963, denying defendant’s post-trial motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

John Hedge was seriously injured on April 6, 1961, when the handle of an hand winch mounted on the side of an A-frame construction truck spun around and split his skull. At the time of the accident a two-thousand pound “drum shaft” was suspended from a cable over the…