COSEY v. METRO-EAST SANITARY DIST.

No. 5-90-0402.

581 N.E.2d 914 (1991)

221 Ill. App.3d 205

163 Ill.Dec. 760

Richard C. COSEY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. METRO-EAST SANITARY DISTRICT, Defendant and Third-party Plaintiff-Appellant (Pfizer Pigments Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, Third-party Defendant and Counterplaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant; Rodney Hunt Company, a Massachusetts corporation, Third-party Defendant and Counterdefendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellee; The Village of Sauget, Illinois, a municipal corporation; City of East St. Louis, Illinois, a municipal corporation, and Ulmer Equipment Company, a Missouri corporation, Third-party Defendants and Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

November 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter C. Brandon, Jr., Cueto & Cueto, Ltd., Belleville, for appellants.

Eric C. Young, Edward L. Adelman, Dunham, Boman & Leskera, East St. Louis, for Rodney Hunt.

Charles J. Kolker, Belleville, for Richard C. Cosey, et al.

Thompson & Mitchell, Belleville, (Thomas F. Hennessy, III and Jeanne Philips-Roth, of counsel), for Pfizer Pigments, Inc.


Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs (hereinafter referred to as Cosey) filed a class action to recover damages for personal injuries and property losses from the Metro East Sanitary District (Metro) after the Mississippi River flooded southern East St. Louis in October 1986. Metro filed a third-party complaint against the City of East St. Louis, the Village of Sauget, Pfizer Pigments, Inc., Ulmer Equipment Company, and the Rodney Hunt Company...

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