Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Hoge-Warren-Zimmerman Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE EGAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves one of the slowly dwindling but still lingering causes of action which arose before the passage of the Contribution Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 70, par. 301 et seq.) and Skinner v. Reed-Prentice Division Package Machinery Co. (1977), 70 Ill. 2d 1, 374 N.E.2d 437.

The plaintiff, Commonwealth Edison Co. (Edison), appeals from an order granting the motion of the defendant, Hoge-Warren-Zimmerman Co. (HWZ), to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint for implied indemnity. HWZ cross-appeals from the trial court’s rejection of…