WEIDLER v. WESTINGHOUSE ELEC. CORP.

Gen. Nos. 48,278, 48,297, 48,298.

37 Ill. App.2d 95 (1962)

185 N.E.2d 100

Robert J. Weidler, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellee, and Separate Appellant, v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Defendant-Appellant and Counter-Defendant-Appellee, and The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Defendant-Appellee, Counter Plaintiff-Appellee, Separate Appellant and Cross-Appellant. On Appeals of Robert J. Weidler, Westinghouse Electric Corporation and The Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Rehearing denied September 20, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vogel & Vogel, of Chicago (L.H. Vogel and Robert B. Johnstone, of counsel), for defendant-appellant; Vogel & Vogel, of Chicago (L.H. Vogel and Dom J. Rizzi, of counsel), for counter-defendant appellee.

Robert H. Bierma and A.L. Foster, of Chicago; Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, of Chicago (Frederick W. Temple and Max E. Wildman, of counsel), for defendant-appellee and cross-appellant.

Henslee, Monek & Murray, of Chicago (Robert E. Harrington and John J. Naughton, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant and plaintiff-appellee.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Robert J. Weidler, a yard conductor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was injured in an accident involving an industrial truck owned and operated by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The accident took place on the premises of Westinghouse in Sharon, Pennsylvania, while Weidler was weighing a railroad car on scales which were located on a switch track within the Westinghouse building.

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