Atchley v. Berlen

This is an appeal from- a judgment of the circuit court of Kankakee County awarding to the plaintiff, James Atchley, $45,000 for injuries suffered in a fall at the defendants’ meat packing plant, and from a subsequent order of the circuit court granting the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial on the issue of damages only. For the reasons stated hereafter, we affirm.

The facts relevant to this appeal are as follows. The defendants, Joe Berlen, Jim Argyropolous, and Joseph Maffei, owned a business known as “Tripoles Packing,” and operated a slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Grant Park,…