Vallat v. Radium Dial Co.

Appellant, Inez Corcoran Vallat, filed her complaint in the superior court of Cook county and asked $50,000 damages from the Radium Dial Company, appellee and cross-appellant, on account of an alleged illness she contracted as a result of a violation of section 1 of “An act to promote the public health by protecting certain employees in this State from the dangers of occupational diseases, and providing for the enforcement thereof,” approved May 26, 1911, (Laws of 1911, p. 330; Smith’s Stat. 1933, p. 1401; Cahill’s Stat. 1933, p. 1375;) which provides: “That every employer of labor in this…