Legal Opinion
Flora v. Home Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 1982No. 81-2912PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
In this case we are asked to decide whether Howard Flora, a sole proprietor who (1) contracted with Home Federal Savings and Loan Association to work on a building it owned and (2) was injured while doing the work, could continue to maintain an Illinois Structural Work Act action against Home Federal, after Flora’s sole proprietorship, Flora Construction Company, was found to have been the active tortfeasor and thus responsible for indemnifying Home Federal for any liability under the Act. We conclude that, because Flora and his sole proprietorship are a single legal…
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