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  "id": 2961924,
  "name": "Augusta Liljegren, Appellee, v. Kropp Forge Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Liljegren v. Kropp Forge Co.",
  "decision_date": "1916-10-30",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,371",
  "first_page": "565",
  "last_page": "567",
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      "cite": "201 Ill. App. 565"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Augusta Liljegren, Appellee, v. Kropp Forge Company, Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, \u00a7 11 \u2014when death not caused by accident within meaning of act. Tlie death of a workman who, after four or five days\u2019 employment as a heater in a blacksmith and forge room, becomes unconscious and dies within half an hour is not caused by an accident within the meaning of the title of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act of 1913 (Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, \u00b6 5475 et seq.), providing for \u201ccompensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment.\u201d\n2. Master and servant, \u00a7 701*\u2014when evidence insufficient to show death resulted from violation of statute. In a proceeding brought under the Occupational Diseases Act (J. & A. \u00b6 5433 et seq.), to recover compensation for the death of a workman who, after four or five days\u2019 employment as a heater in a blacksmith and forge room, became unconscious and died within half an hour, evidence held insufficient to show that deceased came to his death through any omission or act of the employer in violation of the act.\n3. Master and servant, \u00a7 701*\u2014what proof necessary as to cause of death. In order to recover compensation for the death of a workman under the Occupational Diseases Act (J. & A. \u00b6 5433 et seq.), requiring employers to employ certain devices and methods to prevent such diseases, it must be proved that the cause of the death was the failure of the employer to comply with the act.\n4. Master and servant, \u00a7 50b*\u2014when evidence sufficient to show cause of death. In a proceeding under the Occupational Diseases Act (J. & A. \u00b6 5433 et seq.), to recover compensation for the death of a workman who, after four or five days\u2019 employment in a blacksmith and forge room, became unconscious and died in half an hour, evidence examined and held to show that the cause of deceased\u2019s death was apoplexy.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely"
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    "attorneys": [
      "H. L. Howard, for appellant.",
      "Charles C. Spencer, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Augusta Liljegren, Appellee, v. Kropp Forge Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,371.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mazzini Slusseb, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1916.\nReversed with finding of fact.\nOpinion filed October 30, 1916.\nRehearing denied November 13, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Augusta Liljegren, plaintiff, against the Kropp Forge Company, defendant, in the Superior Court of Cook county, to recover compensation under the Occupational Diseases Act (J. & A. \u00b6 5433 et seq.), for the death of plaintiff\u2019s husband while employed by defendant as a heater in its blacksmith and forge room. Prom a judgment for plaintiff for $3,000, defendant appeals. '\nIt appeared that after being employed in the forge room for four or five days deceased became unconscious and died in half an hour. Plaintiff claimed that death was due to heat exhaustion. Deceased\u2019s duties were to feed coke into one of the furnaces and to insert and take out steel billets. The evidence tended to show that the temperature of the room was from 85 to 90 degrees at the time deceased became unconscious. The evidence as to whether devices could have been adopted to reduce the heat was conflicting. There was evidence that just before deceased\u2019s death a flow from his mouth had the odor of whisky, and that a partly filled-flask of whisky was found in his pocket. The evidence also tended to show that at that time deceased had been drinking, and that a temperature of from 85 to 90 degrees would only -slightly affect the health of a normal man. The verdict of the coroner\u2019s jury was that death was due to \u201corganic heart disease, combined with insolation,\u201d but the doctor testified that \u201cthe cause of death was apoplexy, which is a hardening of the arteries and the rupture of a blood vessel in the cranium.\u201d\nH. L. Howard, for appellant.\nCharles C. Spencer, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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