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  "name": "Walter J. North, Administrator of the Estate of James W. North, Deceased, Appellee, v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Appellant",
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      "Walter J. North, Administrator of the Estate of James W. North, Deceased, Appellee, v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAppellee\u2019s intestate lost his life, December 5, 1913, from injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment for appellant as caretaker in the medical department of the University, by falling down an elevator shaft. Against appellant\u2019s protest that the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act of 1913 did not apply to it, and that the Industrial Board was without jurisdiction in the matter, proceedings for compensation for said intestate\u2019s death were had under said act resulting in an award against appellant of $3,360.\nClaiming that said Industrial Board had no jurisdiction to apply the act to the University of Illinois, appellant brought said proceedings before the Circuit Court on common-law certiorari, and this appeal from the court\u2019s action in dismissing the petition and quashing the writ raises the sole question whether appellant comes under the act in question.\nThe gist of appellee\u2019s argument for sustaining the court\u2019s order is, that appellant is an \u201cemployer\u201d as defined by section 4 of said Act [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, \u00b6 5475(4)], and engaged in an \u201centerprise\u201d as designated in subdivisions 6 and 7, paragraph (b), section 3 of said Act [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, \u00b6 5475(3)], reading as follows:\n\u201c6. Any enterprise in which explosive materials are manufactured, handled or used in dangerous quantities ;\n\u201c7. In any enterprise wherein molten metal, or explosive or injurious gases or vapors or inflammable vapors or fluids, or corrosive acids are manufactured, used, generated, stored or conveyed in dangerous quantities. \u2019 \u2019\nThe record discloses that except in the course of educational instruction the university is not engaged in any of the \u201coccupations, enterprises or businesses\u201d enumerated in said paragraph (b), but that in the course of instruction and for such purpose only, it uses explosive material and inflammable fluid in its chemical laboratory, and runs a foundry in which molten metal is used.\nIt is conceded that appellant has not elected to accept the provisions of the act, and snch election will not be presumed unless the employer is engaged in one of the occupations, enterprises, or businesses enumerated in section 3, paragraph (b) of said Act. (Uphoff v. Industrial Board, 271 Ill. 312.) If, as we think, appellant was not so engaged, then, it not having so elected, we need not discuss whether it is an \u201cemployer\u201d as defined in section 4.\nThe question is, whether by the use or handling of such explosives, inflammable fluids and molten metal as aforesaid, appellant is engaged in an \u201centerprise\u201d as designated in said quoted paragraphs 6 and 7. The record does not disclose the extent of their use. But whether \u201cin dangerous quantities\u201d or not, we do not construe the term \u2018 \u2018 enterprise \u2019 \u2019 as used in said act to apply to such a state of facts. The University was chartered to furnish instruction to students in various branches of learning. Neither the general nature and character of the work of educational instruction, nor the methods adopted in giving it, can properly be denominated an \u201centerprise\u201d as that term is usually defined. (Uphoff case, supra.) Nor would they be brought within the definition of that term as employed in the statute merely by the incidental use and handling of the materials mentioned in the statute.\nWere it otherwise, and appellant deemed an employer as defined in section 4, then each employee of the University, no matter how remote his employment from the use or handling of such materials, would be brought within the scope of the act, a construction we cannot regard as within its meaning and intent.\nThe authorities cited in the argument relate to very different situations, and throw so little light on the construction of section 3 that we shall not discuss them, nor dwell upon the many incongruities a different interpretation would produce.\nBeaching the conclusion, therefore, that mere methods of instruction in an educational institution involving the use of such materials, cannot be deemed as embraced within the term \u201centerprise\u201d as used in said act, and that the facts disclosed in the proceedings before the Industrial Board did not give it jurisdiction to render a decision and make such award against appellant, we shall reverse the action of the court below in dismissing the petition and quashing the writ and shall enter the order here that should have been entered on the hearing before the Circuit Court, and set aside such proceedings and quash the record of the Industrial Board relating thereto. (Behrens v. Commissioners of Highways, 169 Ill. 558.)\nAppellee contends that the order of the Circuit Court allowing the evidence and proceedings before the Industrial Board to be incorporated in the bill of exceptions is of no effect because the hill of exceptions was not filed within time, and the court had lost jurisdiction to enter the order. But as appellee subsequently stipulated that the bill of exceptions might be incorporated into the transcript of the record for this appeal, he is in no position to raise the point. (Lederbrand v. Pickrell, 167 Ill. 624.)\nReversed and record of Industrial Board quashed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Oliver A. Barker and MacChesney & Becker, for appellant; Nathan William MacChesney, of counsel.",
      "Marshall E. Gallion and Edward B. Morris, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Walter J. North, Administrator of the Estate of James W. North, Deceased, Appellee, v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,432.\n1. Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, \u00a7 3 \u2014when university not within. A university, though using and handling explosives, inflammable fluids and molten metal in the course of giving instruction, is not engaged in -an \u201centerprise\u201d as designated in the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act of 1913, sec. 3, par. (b), subd. 6, 7 [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, \u00b6 5475(3)].\n2. Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, \u00a7 13*\u2014when appellee estopped to object against incorporation of evidence and proceedings in bill of exceptions. Where, on appeal from an order of the Circuit Court quashing a writ of certiorari to review proceedings before the Industrial Board under the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, the appellee, subsequently to the expiration of the time when a bill of exceptions could be filed, stipulated that the bill of exceptions might be incorporated into the transcript of the record, held that he could not object that the court was without authority to order that the evidence and proceedings before the Industrial Board be incorporated in the bill.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles H. Bowles, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1915.\nReversed and record of Industrial Board quashed.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1916.\nOliver A. Barker and MacChesney & Becker, for appellant; Nathan William MacChesney, of counsel.\nMarshall E. Gallion and Edward B. Morris, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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