Brown v. Village of Shipman

The principal issue here is a novel question concerning the liability for indemnity of an individual who (1) has contracted with an owner, who was in charge of the work, to demolish a building, (2) is injured while doing the work, and (3) brings suit against the owner for those injuries alleging a wilful violation of the Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 48, par. 60 et seq.). In such a situation does the owner, in turn, have a right for indemnity against the individual contractor if that contractor’s fault was an active proximate cause of his injury and the owner’s fault was only…