Havana National Bank ex rel. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Tazewell Club

Mr. Presiding Justice Riess

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff has appealed from an order of the circuit court of Tazewell county sustaining a motion of defendant appellee, The Tazewell Club, a corporation, to dismiss appellant’s amended complaint.

From the pleadings, it appears that on June 22,1934, Phillip D. Dieffenbacher. was an official of the Havana National Bank and was attending a bankers’ association meeting at the Tazewell Club in Pekin, Illinois; that a porch railing at its clubhouse gave way, causing him to fall and receive injuries from which he died on the following…