Curry v. Chicago Housing Authority

PRESIDING JUSTICE LINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Leroy Curry, Sr., instituted this wrongful-death action on behalf of the estate of Patricia Ann Curry. Leroy’s second amended complaint alleges that the decedent died as a result of negligence on the part of the Chicago Housing Authority and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (referred to jointly as defendants). In essence, the complaint charges that the defendants were negligent in permitting the elevators in the decedent’s building to remain in disrepair and that, as a result of this negligence, the decedent was unable…