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· 5/11/1989

Bowers v. Du Page County Regional Board of School Trustees District No. 4

Citations

  • 539 N.E.2d 246
  • 183 Ill. App. 3d 367
  • 131 Ill. Dec. 893
  • 1989 Ill. App. LEXIS 666

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  • reversing circuit court’s 2-615 dismissal where plaintiff alleged defendants knew, or should have known, that failure to adequately supervise and to provide safe and adequate matting under a rope ladder would result in injury to plaintiff
  • Board of Education operates only through its employees and can be held liable only if one of its employees can be held liable
  • allegation that school district “ ‘knew or should have known’ ” a rope ladder was dangerous was sufficient
  • Board of Education operates only through its employees and can be held liable only if one of its employees can be held liable
  • allegation that school district \knew or should have known\ a rope ladder was dangerous was sufficient
  • allegations included that defendant failed to instruct students in proper manner to perform activity and failed to ascertain whether they were able to perform it

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