Harvel v. City of Johnston City

PRESIDING JUSTICE LEWIS

delivered the opinion of the court:

On July 26, 1989, the plaintiffs, James and Barbara Harvel, filed a complaint against the defendants, City of Johnston City (the City) and Lawrence A. Lipe & Associates (Lipe). In the complaint, counts I and II stated that the defendants had violated the provisions of the Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 48, par. 60 et seq.), and that these violations were the proximate cause of plaintiff James Harvel’s (James’) injuries. In the two remaining counts, counts III and IV, plaintiff Barbara Harvel (Barbara) alleged that the…