Krambeer v. Canning

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE FRIEND

delivered the opinion of the court.

Raymond Krambeer, deceased, an employee of William E. Schweitzer and Company, a contractor, was fatally injured on a remodeling job at 3300-3314 West Lawrence Avenue in Chicago. The administratrix of his estate sued Gordon Canning, Florence Canning Wehr, and Graeme A. Canning, the owners of the property, under the Structural Work Act (Ill Rev Stats 1959, c 48, .§§ 60-69), alleging various violations of the act and charging negligence alleged to have arisen out of the use of a defective ladder. Gordon Canning filed an amended…