Law v. Central Illinois Public Service Co.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE MILLS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Decedent was electrocuted.

Contributory negligence?

The jury said yes.

We affirm.

The jury returned a verdict in favor of all defendants in this wrongful death action and also found, by special interrogatories, that the plaintiff’s decedent was both contributorily negligent and a volunteer.

The fatal sequence of events began when defendant Weber entered into a contract to raze a water tower located to the west of Washington School in Pana. Approximately a week and a half prior to Law’s death, Weber took his boom truck to the schoolyard.…