Overbeck v. Jon Construction, Inc.

This appeal is from the circuit court’s order granting defendants’ motions for summary judgment as to count I of plaintiff’s second amended complaint, alleging that defendants violated the Illinois Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 48, par. 60) (Act). Count II of the second amended complaint is a negligence count. Summary judgment was granted as to count I for the reasons that the ladder involved in the accident was not defective, the placement of the ladder did not violate the Act, and no violation of the Act proximately caused plaintiff’s injuries. The court denied summary…