Schneider v. State

This case was consolidated with the case of Lloyd Harris. Both cases were given the number 77-CC-0663 in the Court of Claims. Mr. Schneider and Mr. Harris were both injured in the same accident.

This Claimant was seriously injured on April 22, 1975, as a result of a fall from a scaffold from which he was working while painting a State-owned traffic bridge located at the U.S. Route 50 overpass of the L & N Railroad tracks, one-quarter mile west of the intersection of Illinois Route 111 and U.S. Route 50 in St. Clair County, Illinois. The Claimant was employed by the Gus T. Handge Company of St.…