Judge: Evidence Shows Defendant Is Mere Continuation Of Oil Storage Company

(May 10, 2018, 9:43 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois on April 26 denied a motion for summary judgment filed by defendant Lenz Oil Peoria Inc. in which it argued that it is not the corporate successor to Lenz Oil Service Co., finding that the evidence shows that two brothers owned Lenz Oil Services at the time it began storing chemicals that contaminated the ground and soil at a site in Chicago (LCCS Group v. Lenz Oil Peoria Inc., et al., No. 16 C 5827, N.D. Ill., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69900)....