Boersma v. Amoco Oil Co.

Plaintiff, James M. Boersma, sued defendant, Amoco Oil Company, for his injuries incurred when the roadway on which plaintiff was working in defendant’s Indiana refinery collapsed after steam lines broke beneath it allegedly due to defendant’s negligence. Defendant appeals from a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff and argues that the trial court erred in applying Illinois substantive law in the trial of the accident, instructing the jury about the doctrine of res ipso loquitur, barring several defense witnesses, excluding and admitting certain evidence, denying defendant’s request for a…