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WRIGHT v. SYNERGISTICS, INC.

No. 76-545.

52 Ill. App.3d 233 (1977)

367 N.E.2d 466

LORETTA WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SYNERGISTICS, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed August 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Lowrey, of Chicago, for appellant.

Garbutt, Jacobson & Lee Associated, of Chicago (E.J. Garbutt, of counsel), for appellee Erickson, Kristmann & Stillwaugh, Inc.

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, of Chicago (D. Kendall Griffith, A. Mark Ialongo, and David B. Permar, of counsel), for appellees Synergistics, Inc., and Gilbert Hodgman, Inc.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

The sole issue in this appeal is whether a person injured walking across a scaffold as she left her place of employment, although she was not employed in the construction on which the scaffold was being used, is protected by the Illinois Structural Work Act ("the Act") (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 48, pars. 60-69).

Plaintiff, who was employed by the Board of Education...

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