Fetterman v. Production Steel Co. of Illinois

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE

delivered the opinion of the court.

Robert Petterman brought an action against Production Steel Company of Illinois and A. T. Herlin & Son, Inc., to recover damages for injuries sustained as the result of falling from a scaffold which had been erected by the latter at the site of a building construction project in Broadview, charging that the defendants in the erection and maintenance of the scaffold were guilty of negligence and of violating section 1 of the Scaffolding Act (par. 60, ch. 48, Ill. Rev. Stats. 1953 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 45.101]). The steel company…