Pardridge v. Gilbride
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1901. Statement. — This suit was brought by appellee to recover for injuries sustained by him while in the employ of appellants and which, it is charged, resulted from negligence of appellants. Appellee was conductor of a freight elevator and had been so engaged for two years.
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Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1901. Statement. — This suit was brought by appellee to recover for injuries sustained by him while in the employ of appellants and which, it is charged, resulted from negligence of appellants. Appellee was conductor of a freight elevator and had been so engaged for two years. During this time there had been a defect in the elevator or in the machinery which regulated its operation, by which the elevator when left…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Seaes
delivered .the opinion of the court.
The various grounds upon which it is urged by the learned counsel for appellants that this judgment should be reversed, are: First, that appellee is shown by the evidence to have been guilty of contributory negligence; second, that the danger of injury by reason of this defect in the elevator' was' an assumed risk; third, that the court erred in the giving of certain instructions; fourth, that the court erred in excluding evidence of an inspection of the elevator by a city official; fifth, that a plea of the statute of limitations to an additional count…
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