St. Joseph Hospital v. Corbetta Construction Co.

This involves consolidated appeals from two actions in the circuit court of Cook County. Both arose primarily out of problems flowing from the installation of Textolite plastic laminate wall paneling on the walls of the new St. Joseph Hospital during its construction, which paneling proved to have a “flame spread” rating some 17 times the maximum permitted under the Chicago Building Code and had to be replaced with paneling complying with said Code.

The first was a declaratory judgment action brought by the Hospital against its architect, the contractor and the manufacturer-supplier of said…