Burks v. Matrix Vision of Wilmette, Inc.
Appellate Court of Illinois
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE LORENZ
delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiffs appeal the dismissal of count I of their complaint at law for failure to state a-cause of action under the Structural Work Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, pars. 60 through 69).
We affirm.
This matter arises out of an incident which occurred on March 15, 1983. As alleged in the complaint, defendants Matrix Vision of Wilmette, Incorporated (Matrix Vision), and Matrix Enterprises, Incorporated (Matrix), were then engaged as general contractors to install television transmission cables on existing wooden poles owned by…
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