Capua v. W. E. O'Neil Construction Co.

Richard Capua, the plaintiff, suffered severe injuries when the scaffold on which he was standing collapsed. This happened at the Metropolitan Sanitary District’s Salt Creek Water Reclamation Project, which is located on Meachem Road in Schaumberg, Illinois. He filed a suit in the circuit court of Cook County naming W. E. O’Neil Construction Company (O’Neil), S. J. Groves & Sons Company (Groves), Boynton Engineers, Inc., and the Metropolitan Sanitary District (the District) as defendants. He alleged that O’Neil and Groves were general contractors engaged in the construction of certain…