Apex Smelting Co. v. Burns

MAJOR, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in defendants’ favor, entered September 14, 1948, following a directed verdict, allowed on defendants’ motion, at the conclusion of plaintiff’s case.

Plaintiff filed its complaint against the defendants, alleging that it was the owner and in possession of certain described premises located in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and was in the exercise of due care and caution for the preservation of such premises from injury and harm, and was active in the conduct and operation of a large and commodious manufacturing plant. That its plant might…