LASALLE NAT. BANK v. WIEBOLDT STORES, INC.

Gen. No. 51,942.

102 Ill. App.2d 339 (1968)

243 N.E.2d 328

LaSalle National Bank, a National Banking Corporation, Administrator of the Estate of Henry C. Lavery, Jr., Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Josephine Watschke, Administratrix of the Estate of Fred Watschke, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Elizabeth Beckmeyer, Administratrix of the Estate of William F. Beckmeyer, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Faulds Oven & Equipment Company, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. The Home Indemnity Company, a Corporation, Subrogee of Faulds Oven & Equipment Company, Inc., a Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Ada M. Zielke, Administratrix of the Estate of William Henry Zielke, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Faulds Oven & Equipment Company, Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Rehearing denied December 17, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peterson, Lowry, Rall, Barber & Ross, of Chicago (A.R. Peterson, Herbert C. Loth, Jr., Norbert J. Wegerzyn, of counsel), for appellants.

John J. Witous, Clausen, Hirsh, Miller & Gorman Joseph Carr, Gardner, Carton, Douglas, Chilgren & Waud, Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum, and Lester E. Williams, of Chicago (Jacob T. Pincus and James T. Ferrini, of counsel), for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

This is the second appeal in this case. The first appeal, LaSalle Nat. Bank v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc., 60 Ill.App.2d 188, 208 N.E.2d 845, was decided in 1965. The six lawsuits which were consolidated and tried involve claims arising from an explosion in the Wieboldt Department Store (Wieboldt) in River Forest, Illinois, on March 6...

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