Legal Opinion
Sprietsma v. Mercury Marine
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided April 6, 2000No. 1 — 99 — 0012PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barth
The plaintiff, Rex Sprietsma, as administrator of the estate of his deceased wife, Jeanne, filed this wrongful death action against, inter alia, Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation (Mercury), for the benefit of himself, the surviving spouse, and his son, Ross. Jeanne died after falling from a motorboat and being struck by the propeller blades of the boat’s outboard engine. That engine was not equipped with a propeller guard..
Mercury moved to dismiss pursuant to section 2 — 619 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/2 — 619 (West 1998)), on the ground that the common law…
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3Cited by10 opinions
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