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SEARS v. KOIS BROS. EQUIPMENT, INC.

No. 80-599.

110 Ill. App.3d 884 (1982)

443 N.E.2d 214

MELINE A. SEARS, Plaintiff, v. KOIS BROTHERS EQUIPMENT, INC., et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs — Appellees. — (Garwood Industries, Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants — Appellants.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed November 24, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, Stephen Sonderby, and Sloan and Connelly, P.C., all of Chicago (Leonel I. Hatch, Charles H. Cole, Stephen R. Swofford, Joel W. Ostrander, and Michael P. Connelly, of counsel), for appellants.

William V. Johnson, of Johnson, Cusack & Bell, Ltd., of Chicago (Thomas H. Fegan, of counsel), for appellees.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE McGILLICUDDY delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Meline A. Sears, brought this action against Kois Brothers Equipment, Inc. (Kois Bros.) and Melvin Dirksen to recover damages for the wrongful death of her husband, Earl Sears, Sr., who was killed when his automobile collided with two dump bodies which had fallen on the Illinois Tollway from a Kois Bros. truck driven by Dirksen. The defendants filed a third-party complaint...

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