White v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Plaintiff was an employee of defendant and liad Ms leg broken while engaged in unloading sugar from a car. He brought this action for damages and recovered judgment in the circuit court.

Defendant is' a large mercantile establishment, engaged in business in a large building, into the lower floor of which spur tracks of a railway are laid, over which cars of merchandise are taken in and out of the building. Plaintiff was a laborer engaged in unloading-sacks of sugar from a car. He was under the orders and direction of defendant’s foreman in that department. As near as we can understand the…