Emberton v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

I dissent. I agree with the reasoning of Justices Carter and Goldenhersh in McGovern v. Standish, 33 Ill. App. 3d 717, 341 N.E.2d 739, and McGovern v. Standish, 65 Ill. 2d 54, 1134 N.E.2d 357, respectively.

Further and specifically, McGovern, so heavily relied upon by the majority, does not involve an owner as defendant, in addition to an architect defendant. Justice Crebs’ majority opinion for the Supreme Court while reciting that an architect should not be required to comply with the onerous burdens of the Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 40, par. 60 et seq.), did not, in my…