McGee v. State

This matter comes before the Court as a result of an accident sustained by Claimant, David McGee, while an inmate of the Illinois State Penitentiary of Joliet, Illinois.

On May 12, 1967, Claimant’s superiors in said penitentiary assigned him to work in the shoe factory and, in connection with this work, he was directed and required to operate an electrically operated shoe repair machine.

Claimant’s Second Amended Complaint alleges, in part, as follows:

"3. That said shoe repair machine was an inherently dangerous instrumentality and that said Respondent knew and by the exercise of reasonable…