Halberstadt v. Harris Trust & Savings Bank

Plaintiff, Violet Halberstadt, as the widow of Gerald Halberstadt, filed a second amended complaint in the circuit court of Cook County charging defendants Harris Trust & Savings Bank (building owner), N. W. Harris Corporation (building manager), and Robert Van Nest (management employee) with violations of the Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, ch. 48, par. 60 et seq.) which she alleged proximately caused her husband’s death when he fell from a commercial office building while washing windows on July 22, 1965. The circuit court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint,…