BURKE v. SKY CLIMBER, INC.

No. 46160.

57 Ill.2d 542 (1974)

316 N.E.2d 516

ANITA BURKE, Admx., v. SKY CLIMBER, INC., et al. — (Sky Climber, Inc., Appellant, v. The Chicago Housing Authority, Appellee.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied September 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Dempsey, Alvin E. Domash and Hugh C. Griffin, of Lord, Bissell & Brook, of Chicago, for appellant.

Jay A. Canel, Erwin I. Katz, and Joseph E. Fitzgerald, all of Chicago (Canel & Canel, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

Anita Burke, individually and as the administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Mark Joseph Burke, filed an action in the circuit court of Cook County against Sky Climber, Inc. (hereafter Sky Climber), and other defendants seeking damages resulting from a fatal accident when her husband fell from a scaffold in 1969 while employed as a tuckpointer for the Chicago Housing...

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