PEOPLES v. GRANITE CITY STEEL CO.

No. 81-34.

109 Ill. App.3d 265 (1982)

440 N.E.2d 363

JAMES O. PEOPLES, Plaintiff-Appellant and Appellee, v. GRANITE CITY STEEL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. — (Granite Sheet Metal Works, Defendant-Appellant, Counterclaimant-Appellant, and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellee; The Carborundum Company, Defendant-Appellant, Counterdefendant-Appellee, and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant; G.H. Sternberg & Company, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant and Appellee.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Rehearing denied October 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Kaseberg, of Bernard, Davidson and Kaseberg, of Granite City, for Carborundum Company.

Robert D. Francis, Howard Boman, and Russell K. Scott, all of Dunham, Boman and Leskera, of East St. Louis, for Granite Sheet Metal Works.

John F. O'Connell, of O'Connell and Waller, of Belleville, for G.H. Sternberg & Company.

Law Offices of William W. Schooley, of Granite City, for James O. Peoples.

Bernard H. Bertrand, of Wagner, Bertrand, Bauman and Schmieder, of Belleville, for Granite City Steel Company.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

JUSTICE WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

On October 10, 1977, plaintiff James Peoples was employed as an ironworker on a pollution control project at Granite City Steel Company (Granite City). To comply with government standards, Granite City contracted with the Carborundum Company (Carborundum) to construct a facility which would collect pollutants given off from its basic oxygen furnace. Carborundum, in turn...

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