Palier v. Dreis & Krump Manufacturing Co.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff’s amended complaint sought judgment for damages alleged to have been sustained when he fell from a scaffold in the performance of his employment as a riveter in the construction of a building being erected on premises owned by the defendant. He alleged that on September 8, 1958, the defendant was in charge of the construction of the building; that at the time of the occurrence he was bolting crane-girders to the columns of the building and that by reason of the willful violation of the Illinois Structural Work Act, Ill…