Sorg v. Crandall
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- Indiana
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Outcome
The Industrial Board's award of workmen's compensation to Starbuck's dependents was affirmed, with the appellate court holding that Starbuck was an employee of appellant under an implied contract of hire when killed during installation work.
Excerpt
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windps, Judge, presiding: On June 20, 1894, Paul J. Sorg filed his bill in the circuit court of Cook county against various defendants, in which he .sought to have set aside and declared null and void, as clouds upon his title, certain conveyances and claims for mechanics’ liens. Cross-bills were filed by some of the defendants, in which they sought to establish liens. Upon a hearing a decree was entered in accordance with the prayer of the original bill. Upon appeal the Appellate Court reversed the decree and the cause was remanded to the circuit court with directions to dismiss the original bill, also the petitions for mechanics’ liens, without prejudice to proceedings other than for mechanics’ liens, under the statute. (Crandall v. Sorg, 99 Ill. App. 22.) A further appeal was prosecuted to this court, where on June 19, 1902, the judgment of the Appellate Court and the decree of the circuit court were each reversed and the cause was remanded to the circuit court, with directions to overrule the recommendations of the master that a decree be entered in favor of Sorg on the ground that no mechanics’ liens could in any event attach to his title, and to proceed to consider and dispose of the question of the validity of the alleged mechanics’ liens of the defendants in the original bill, being the complainants in the cross-bills, filed to establish liens. (Crandall v. Sorg, 198 Ill. 48.) In these cases the facts under consideration are fully set out and it is not necessary to re-state them. After the decision by this court, and in May, 1903, Paul J. Sorg died, leaving surviving him his widow, S. Jennie Sorg, and Paul J. Sorg and Ada G. Sorg, his children and only heirs-at-law. Upon the cause being re-docketed in the circuit court the original bill was not revived by the Sorgs but amendments were filed to the c
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