Finley v. Mercer County

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• to obtain a judgment against the county, the plaintiffs had to prove that the county had constructive notice of the allegedly twisted sign
• the plaintiffs could not establish for the purpose of avoiding summary judgment that the defect existed for a sufficient time to charge the county with constructive notice of the defect because the plaintiffs’ testimony undercut the basic theory of their case
• the plaintiffs could not establish for the purpose of avoiding summary judgment that the defect existed for a sufficient time to charge the county with constructive notice of the defect because the plaintiffs’ testimony undercut the basic theory of their case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brummet v. Farel
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-08-02· cited 30×
• Burke v. Grillo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-04-01· cited 27×
• Ramirez v. City of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-12-07· cited 21×
• Zameer v. City of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-07-19· cited 17×
• Perfetti v. Marion County, Illinois
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-03-07· cited 12×
• Pandya v. Hoerchler
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-12-29· cited 10×
• Ory v. City of Naperville
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-05-11· cited 4×
• Stewart v. United States
  N.D. Illinois· 1996-02-13· cited 3×
• Lewis v. Rutland Township
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-03-04· cited 3×
• Barr v. Frausto
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-01-06· cited 3×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chisolm v. Stephens
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-03-30· cited 88×
• Buford v. Chicago Housing Authority
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-02-11· cited 39×
• Schuman v. Pekin House Restaurant & Lounge
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-12-09· cited 19×
• Hansen v. Ruby Construction Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-12-15· cited 11×