Aurora Boiler Works v. Colligan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane County;' the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers
John Colligan, appellee, was employed as a laborer by the Aurora Boiler Works, and while assisting one Smith, another laborer, in drilling holes in a boiler, by the use of an air drill, the chuck on which was connected by a setscrew, had his thumb torn off by being caught by the set-screw wThile the drill was revolving. He recovered a verdict for $5,000, which was reduced by a remittitur to $1,500, and judgment rendered on the verdict, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.
The negligence charged in the declaration is the placing of the set-screw in the air drill, thereby unnecessarily…
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- Dowling v. Gerard B. Allen & Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1881
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- Slack v. HarrisIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
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