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WILSON v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RY. CO.

No. 81-496.

109 Ill. App.3d 79 (1982)

440 N.E.2d 238

ROBERT WILSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. — (Baker Equipment Engineering Co., Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed September 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl D. Dexheimer, of Pope and Driemeyer, of Belleville, for appellant.

Michael B. Constance and Edward J. Szewczyk, both of Donovan, Hatch & Constance, P.C., of Belleville, for appellee Baker Equipment Engineering Co., Inc.

Jerome Mirza & Associates, Ltd., of Bloomington (Jerome Mirza, of counsel), for appellee Robert Wilson.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

On October 27, 1977, the plaintiff, Robert Wilson, was employed as a road electrician for the Norfolk and Western Railway, and had been so employed for approximately a year. The position of road electrician was, in railroad terminology, equivalent to that of a lineman for a power company, and Wilson had over 30 years' experience as a journeyman lineman. That day, he was performing work...

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