Reed v. Danville Concrete Products Co.

This negligence action arises out of injuries suffered by a worker during the construction of a house. The underlying facts here are not in dispute: the plaintiff, employed by a carpentry contractor, fell from a scaffold onto drainage tiles that another contractor had left at the work site. The trial court dismissed the complaint for failing to state a cause of action. We reverse.

On review the only question before us is the legal sufficiency of the complaint; a motion to dismiss admits all well-pleaded allegations. (Richards v. Leimbacher (1971), 131 Ill. App. 2d 775, 267 N.E.2d 523.) One or…