HUNT v. BLASIUS

No. 14069.

55 Ill. App.3d 14 (1977)

370 N.E.2d 617

JAMES V. HUNT, JR., Adm'r of the Estates of Shahram Dehnad, Deceased, and Kamyar Arjomand, Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ROBERT BLASIUS et al., Defendants. — (FOSCO FABRICATORS, Defendant-Appellee.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed December 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Costigan & Wollrab, of Bloomington, and Rolland H. Stimson, of Chicago (William F. Costigan and James T. Finegan, of counsel), for appellants.

Livingston, Barger, Brandt, Slater and Schroeder, of Bloomington (Thomas M. Barger, III, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE WEBBER delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves another foray into that only partially-charted terra incognita of the law, known as strict liability in tort.

On April 30, 1970, one of plaintiff's decedents was the owner-operator of a motor vehicle proceeding in a southerly direction on Interstate Highway 55 near Normal, Illinois. The other plaintiffs...

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