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Powell v. Weiner

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Apr 19, 1945
325 Ill. App. 697 (Ill. App. Ct. 1945)

Opinion

Gen. No. 43,108. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed April 19, 1945 Released for publication May 2, 1945

LANDLORD AND TENANT, § 296instruction properly refused. In action for injuries to 4 year old child, on theory that washing machine and wringer were of inherently dangerous nature to young children who might be attracted by machine, where it appeared that defendant coin meter company had electric washing machine with wringer in defendant's building, wherein child's parents were tenants, all tenants having right to use it and that child caused electric current to start by inserting wire connection in socket and caught his right hand in wringer, held that judgment against defendant landlord should be, affirmed, since court did not err in refusing to give instruction that defendants would not be liable unless washing machine and wringer were dangerous, and that defendants should have anticipated before accident that children would be injured by it when playing therewith.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. GUY L. SMITH, Judge, presiding.

Judgments affirmed. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the June term, 1944.

Lord, Bissell Kadyk, for appellant;

Leonard F. Martin and Guy C. Baltz, of counsel;

H.H. Patterson and Brown West, for appellees;

Edmund C. Maurer, of counsel.


Not to be published in full. Opinion filed April 19, 1945; released for publication May 2, 1945.


Summaries of

Powell v. Weiner

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Apr 19, 1945
325 Ill. App. 697 (Ill. App. Ct. 1945)
Case details for

Powell v. Weiner

Case Details

Full title:Lewis G. Powell et al., Appellees, v. Aaron B. Weiner, Trading as 130 N…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Apr 19, 1945

Citations

325 Ill. App. 697 (Ill. App. Ct. 1945)
60 N.E.2d 646

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