Forrest v. Roper Furniture Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. Oscar E. Heard, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913. Certiorari allowed by Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
4. Master and servant, § 800*—when instruction not erroneous as omitting element of employer’s knowledge of condition of mar-chine, In an action by an employee to recover for the loss of an eye resulting from failure of the employer to guard saw machinery as required by section 1 of the Act of 1910, J. & A. 1f 5386, where the' right to maintain the action was based on the proviso to section 3 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1912, held that an instruction given for plaintiff was not objectionable for the reason that it omitted the element of defendant’s knowledge of the condition of the…
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