Beebe v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal by the plaintiff, Paul Beebe, is from a jury verdict entered in favor of defendant, Commonwealth Edison Company, upon a complaint alleging defendant’s violation of the Structural Work Act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 48, par. 60-69.

On July 21, 1971, plaintiff was employed by the McDowell-W ellman Eng. Co. as a journeyman ironworker and was performing repair work on the premises of Edison’s coal transfer plant at Havana, Illinois. In order to perform the work plaintiff was assigned, it was necessary that some type of…