Manisco v. Marseilles Fire Protection District

This case comes on appeal from orders dismissing plaintiff-appellant’s second amended complaint. We affirm.

In August 1980, the Marseilles Fire Protection District (hereinafter district) entered into an agreement with plaintiff’s decedent, Bernard Underhill (hereinafter Underhill). Underhill, a sole proprietor, was to install electrical fixtures in the district’s new fire station that was under construction. On September 3, Underhill apparently fell from a scaffold he was using, suffering fatal injuries. There were no eyewitnesses.

Underhill’s activity was the only construction in the new…