Burger v. Van Severen

The plaintiff, John Burger, brought this action in the Circuit Court of Rock Island County under the Illinois Structural Work Act (111 Rev Stats 1961, c 48, § 60) to recover damages for injuries which he received when the. scaffold upon which he was working collapsed. Plaintiff filed suit against the defendant, Henry Yan Severen, who had erected the scaffold, and against the general contractor, Rock Island Lumber Company. The Rock Island Lumber Company pri- or to the trial paid the plaintiff $11,000 in consideration of a covenant not to sue and was dismissed as a party defendant.

The case was…