People v. Fiorini

Third-party defendants, the city of Ottawa; Zion Lutheran Church, Member of Missouri Synod (Zion); and Richard Thompson and Glen Thompson (Thompsons), appeal from the appellate court’s decision which reversed the trial court’s dismissal of the third-party complaint (192 Ill. App. 3d 396). The third-party complaint alleges that third-party defendants are liable for, among other things, injunctive relief and cleanup costs pursuant to section 21 of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 111½, par. 1021) for a waste dump site located just west of Ottawa in…