Cratsley v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

This appeal involves a suit by Nelda Cratsley as administrator of the estate of Raymond Cratsley, deceased, to recover for personal injuries received by the decedent, a city of Chicago sanitation worker, when he came into contact with a high-voltage overhead electrical transmission line of the defendant Commonwealth Edison Company while in the course of his employment in an alley in Chicago, Illinois.

The trial court at the close of plaintiff’s case dismissed the strict liability count of plaintiff’s complaint and also struck and dismissed certain counts of negligence allegedly committed by…