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BERRY v. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES

No. 82-4.

114 Ill. App.3d 354 (1983)

450 N.E.2d 436

PATRICK H. BERRY, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES et al., Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed May 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dunham, Boman & Leskera, of East St. Louis (Howard Boman and Eric C. Young, of counsel), for appellants.

William E. Brandt, of William E. Brandt & Associates, of Granite City, and George J. Moran, Sr., of Callahan & Moran, of Trenton, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Patrick Berry was employed as a first class shipfitter at facilities operated by subsidiaries of American Commercial Barge Lines (ACBL) on the Mississippi River at Alton, Illinois. On November 29, 1973, he was working on an inclined metal surface known as a slope sheet on barge vessel S-127 which had been brought to ACBL's floating drydock for repairs. While assisting a welder in...

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