NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER v. TERRACON

No. 5-13-0257.

13 N.E.3d 834 (2014)

2014 IL App (5th) 130257

383 Ill. Dec. 83

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, Kathy M. Richardson, Gateway Eastern Railway Company, Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Platte Pipe Line Company, Kinder Morgan Pipelines (USA), Inc., and Kinder Morgan Canada, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TERRACON CONSULTANTS, INC., and Matthew S. Balven, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Heather S. Balven, Deceased, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

July 1, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Boyle , Leslie B. Shinners , Boyle Brasher LLC, Belleville, IL; Mark E. Christensen , Katherine Amelotte Jones , Christensen & Ehret LLP, Chicago, IL, for Appellants.

Roger F. Wilson , Law Office of Stephen H. Larson, St. Louis, MO, for Terracon Consultants, Inc.

Susan M. Herold , Jeffrey K. Suess , Rynearson, Suess, Schnurbusch & Champion, LLC, St. Louis, MO, for Matthew S. Balven , as Special Administrator of the Estate of Heather S. Balven, Deceased.


OPINION

Justice SPOMER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 The plaintiffs, National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Kathy M. Richardson, Gateway Eastern Railway Company, Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Platte Pipe Line Company, Kinder Morgan Pipelines (USA), Inc., and Kinder Morgan Canada, Inc., appeal the order of the circuit court of Madison County that dismissed their complaint for contribution...

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