Illinois Steel Co. v. Eylenfeldt

Mr. Presiding Justice Gary

delivered the opinion of the Court.

March 29, 1892, the appellee sued out a summons against the appellant in an action of “ trespass on the case ”—so entitled in the queritur as well as the summons.

The single count and conclusion following the queritur was as follows:

“ For that, whereas, the defendant heretofore, to wit, on the 20th day of February, 1892, was then and there the proprietor of, and was then and there operating, managing and controlling by its agents and employes, a certain iron mill or foundry in the city of Chicago, in the county aforesaid, near to and…