FREDERICK v. ZEIGLER COAL CO.

No. 13919.

56 Ill. App.3d 888 (1978)

372 N.E.2d 730

PEGGY LYNN FREDERICK et al., Plaintiffs, v. ZEIGLER COAL COMPANY et al., Defendants. — (PEGGY LYNN FREDERICK, Plaintiff-Appellant; STATE BANK OF ARTHUR et al., Guardians of the Estates of Melissa Lynn Frederick et al., Minors, Plaintiffs-Appellees.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed February 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay H. Janssen, of Peoria, for appellant.

W. Loren Thomson, of Bloomington, for appellees.


Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE CRAVEN delivered the opinion of the court:

On June 1, 1973, Byron Frederick was killed when he fell from a scaffold while working on the construction of a silo. His employer was the subcontractor, First Colony Corp., the third-party defendant. The general contractor was defendant Roberts & Schaefer Co., and the defendant Zeigler Coal Company owned the land on which the fatal accident occurred...

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