Hanes v. Orr & Associates

This is an appeal from an award of summary judgment in favor of defendant-counterdefendant, LaGrange Steel Erectors, Inc. a/k/a La Grange Crane Rental, and against defendant-counterplaintiff, Carl W. Linder Company. The same summary judgment ran in favor of La Grange and two of its officers, Thomas and John Mooncotch, and against the plaintiff, Kenneth Hanes. Both the plaintiff and Linder appeal from the award of summary judgment.

On July 12,1972, Linder, together with other contractors, was engaged in erecting a postal facility in Forest Park, Illinois. Waldeck Corporation was a subcontractor…