GRIFFITH WRECKING CO. v. GREMINGER

No. 15021.

65 Ill. App.3d 962 (1978)

382 N.E.2d 1387

GRIFFITH WRECKING COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, v. RICK GREMINGER, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Counterdefendant-Appellee. — (THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, Third-Party Defendant and Counterplaintiff-Appellant.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed November 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas P. Schanzle-Haskins, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of Springfield, for appellant.

Robert Weiner and Terry L. Fields, both of Springfield, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

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

This case concerns the duty of an owner of a building destroyed by fire to reimburse the city in which the building is located for the cost of emergency demolition work performed by the city while the city was searching for human bodies that might have been buried in the rubble.

The city asserts that the owner was required by law to demolish the

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