Potter v. Chicago Heights Motor Freight, Inc.

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110A, par. 308.) Following the denial of defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the trial court certified three questions for this court’s consideration. The basic background facts are undisputed for the most part.

Plaintiff’s husband died on May 9,1973, as a result of injuries suffered while unloading a shipment of steel tubing from a flat-bed truck owned by defendant, Chicago Heights Motor Freight (Freight). The decedent was then employed as a “crane hooker” by Maremont Corporation (Maremont).…