Sack v. Arcole Midwest Corp.

Max F. Sack, a plumber employed by the Commonwealth Plumbing Company, was injured in a fall from a scaffold at the Biver Boad-Thorndale bridge of the Tri-State Tollway on October 31, 1958. He sued the general contractor, L. B. Strandberg & Son Co., Inc., and its two joint venturers, Arcole Midwest Corporation and S. J. Groves & Son Co., Inc. The complaint alleges that the defendants wilfully violated Sections 60 to 69 of the Structural Work Act in that the scaffold was not constructed in a safe and suitable manner causing a hand rail to collapse. At the conclusion of the opening statements of…