READY v. UNITED/GOEDECKE SERVICES, INC.

No. 1-04-1762.

911 N.E.2d 1140 (2009)

Terry E. READY, Special Administrator of the Estate of Michael P. Ready, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED/GOEDECKE SERVICES, INC., Defendant-Appellant and Counterplaintiff (BMW Constructors, Inc., and Midwest Generation EME, L.L.C., Defendants; Midwest Generation EME, L.L.C., BMW Constructors, Inc., Midwest Generation L.L.C., Edison Mission Energy Services, Inc., Counterdefendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

June 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Power Rogers & Smith, P.C., Chicago (Joseph A. Power, Jr., Devon C. Bruce, of counsel), for Appellee.

United/Goedecke Services, Inc., Clausen Miller, P.C., Chicago (Edward M. Kay, Barbara I. Michaelides, Paula M. Carstensen, Paul V. Esposito, of counsel), for Appellant.


Presiding Justice KARNEZIS delivered the opinion of the court:

This cause has been remanded to this court for a ruling on whether defendant United/Goedecke Services, Inc. (United), was deprived of presenting a sole proximate cause defense. For the following reasons, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

We note that the facts in this case are fully set forth in the supreme court's modified opinion, so we briefly set forth only those facts relevant to the...

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