Legal Opinion
Cox v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided August 11, 1982No. 81-1734, 81-1735, 81-1736 consPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McNAMARA
Plaintiffs, Robert Cox, Americo Pasquale, and Mitchell Falco, brought separate actions against defendant Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company for personal injuries sustained on May 18, 1978, when they fell from a scaffold while working at a construction site. One count of each complaint alleged that Lumbermens was in charge of the work in progress at the site and that it wilfully violated the Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 48, pars. 60-68), by failing to erect safe, suitable and proper scaffolds or other temporary support for plaintiffs’ protection. The other count charged…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Davis v. Commonwealth Edison Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1975
- Burke v. Illinois Power Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1978
- McInerney v. Hasbrook Construction Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1975
- Rovekamp v. Central Construction Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1964
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