Legal Opinion
Buczyna v. Cuomo & Son Cartage Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided July 21, 1986No. 84-2152PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE QUINLAN
delivered the opinion of the court:
On November 2, 1979, Stanislaw Buczyna was killed when the automobile he was driving collided head-on with a truck owned by Cuomo & Son Cartage Company (Cuomo) and driven by its employee, Tomas Arias (Arias). The plaintiff, Helena Buczyna, brought this action individually, and as special administrator of the estate of Stanislaw Buczyna, and as the mother and next friend of Stanislaw’s minor children seeking damages under both the Wrongful Death Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 70, pars. 1, 2), and the Dramshop Act (Ill. Rev. Stat.…
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