Bakovich v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE

delivered the opinion of the court:

John Bakovich brought an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained on June 1, 1955. He was injured in the employ of the J. M. Corbett Company, a contractor engaged in the excavating of the right of way for the Congress Street Expressway in Chicago. Plaintiff’s injuries were sustained when another employee of the Corbett Company, while operating a power shovel, broke into a gas main of The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, causing a fire in which plaintiff was burned. Corbett Company, for use of an insurance…