When a plaintiff’s expert testimony was properly excluded, and the machine in question was not one in which the case could have gone to jury merely based on common experience, summary judgment for defendants was not error.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert, Southern District of Illinois.Thornton Auto Crushers is a company that crushes unwanted cars and sends what remains to a salvage company. One of the machines Thornton used to crush the cars was a mobile …