Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Fredericks

Citations

• 71 Ill. 294

Syllabus

<p>1. Master and servant—duty of former to provide safe machinery. It is the duty of a railroad company to furnish suitable and safe machinery, and the law imposes upon them a high decree of care in this regard.</p> <p>3. The machinery and cars furnished by railroad companies, for use, ought- not to be so unskillfully constructed that the slightest indiscretion on the part of the operatives would prove fatal; and where they are so constructed, it is such negligence as will render them liable for damages occasioned thereby to an employee who is ignorant of such unskillful construction.</p>