Menestrina v. St. Louis National Stock Yards

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of .Theodore J. Menestrina, deceased, brought suit against defendant in the city court of East St. Louis, where he obtained a judgment for $2,000, from which the latter appeals.

The declaration charged that defendant owned and operated a stock yards in St. Clair county, consisting of many stock pens, separated by wooden board fences and alleys; that plaintiff’s intestate, a veterinarian, was an employee of the State of Illinois, in the course of which employment he was acting as an…