Solar v. Dominick's Finer Foods, Inc.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GOLDBERG

delivered the opinion of the court:

This record raises an issue of implied indemnity which will soon become of historic value only. (Skinner v. Reed-Prentice Division Package Machinery Co. (1977), 70 Ill. 2d 1, 16-17, 374 N.E.2d 437.) The point arises on the sufficiency of pleadings after the trial court struck and dismissed a counterclaim which sought codefendant indemnity. The counterplaintiff has appealed.

Geraldine Solar (plaintiff) filed her third amended complaint against Dominick’s Finer Foods, Inc. (Dominick’s), and S. A. Barnes Company, Inc. (Barnes).…