JONES v. INDUSTRIAL COM.

No. 51998.

78 Ill.2d 284 (1980)

399 N.E.2d 1314

DEAN P. JONES, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (Phoenix Closures, Inc., Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beermann, Swerdlove, Woloshin & Barezky and Jordan Teplitz, Ltd., both of Chicago (Miles N. Beermann and Howard A. London, of counsel), for appellant.

Richard W. Baum, of Burgeson, Laughlin, Cunningham & Smith, of Chicago, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Dean Jones filed a claim under the Workmen's Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) for injuries sutained on a parking lot provided for employees by Phoenix Closures, Inc. (Phoenix), his employer, when he accidentally closed a car door on his hand while alighting from his automobile. The arbitrator and the Industrial Commission denied an award and the...

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