Reed v. Johnson

Appellants, three brothers conducting a masonry business as a partnership, appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict for $52,500 against them in favor of plaintiff-appellee, a steel construction worker, in a suit under the Illinois Structural Work Act, 111 Rev Stats ch 48, secs 60 and 69, (1961).

In August of 1961, a new building was being constructed in a shopping center on East State Street in Bockford, Illinois. The building was divided lengthwise by a one-story masonry wall running north and south. The west part of the building was to be occupied by a drug store and the wall in…