NORTHLAND INS. CO. v. TRUCKSTOPS CORP. OF AMERICA

Nos. 92 C 3357, 92 C 8265.

914 F.Supp. 216 (1995)

NORTHLAND INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. TRUCKSTOPS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, d/b/a Truckstops of America, Defendant. Susan Mae SMITH, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Willie Earl Powell, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. TRUCKSTOPS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a foreign corporation; Truckstops Corporation of America, d/b/a Truckstops of America, a foreign corporation; B.P. Exploration and Oil, Inc., a foreign corporation; and British Petroleum America, Inc., a foreign corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

November 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Baum, Reibman, Hoffman and Baum, Chicago, IL, for Smith.

Joseph Stalmack, Galvin, Stalmack and Kirschner, Hammond, IN, for Truckstops Corporation of America.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, Senior District Judge.

Willie Powell, the decedent herein, was a Wisconsin resident and at the time of his death was employed as a truck driver by Gateway Transportation, Inc., (GT) a Wisconsin trucking company. While in the course of his employment decedent stopped at the facility of defendant Truckstops of America, an Illinois company, just south of the Illinois state line, to have...

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