Case ID: ill-app_214/html/0627-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Dever", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Walter S. Britton, by Stephen A. Britton, appellee, v. Consumers Company, appellant.
    Gen. No. 24,763.
    Action to recover damages for personal injuries from barrel negligently placed on roof of defendant’s ice house, and blown off and upon plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1918. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
    Reversed with finding of fact.
    Opinion filed April 7, 1919.
    Wilkerson, Cassels & Potter and John M. McKinley, for appellant; Ralph F. Potter and Kenneth B. Hawkins, of counsel. Crafts & Stevens and Winters, Price & Stevens, for appellee; Clayton E. Crafts, George M. Stevens and J. C. Risk, of counsel.
   Mr. Presiding Justice Dever

delivered the opinion of the court.