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· 10/28/1985

Ramos v. City of Countryside

Citations

  • 485 N.E.2d 418
  • 137 Ill. App. 3d 1028
  • 92 Ill. Dec. 607
  • 1985 Ill. App. LEXIS 2636

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  • concluding that a fourteen-year-old boy who struck an eight-year-old boy in the eye with a ball while playing the game of “bombardment” could not be held liable for the younger boy’s injury on a theory of negligence, since both youths were participating in a sporting event
  • no special duty to plaintiff in recreational program because municipality operated in its governmental rather than a proprietary capacity
  • where the court held that section 3-108(a) of the Act was applicable \to shield the city *** from liability for an asserted failure to adequately supervise a summer recreation program held on public property\
  • bombardment, played with a softball
  • bombardment, played with a softball

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Judges: Quinlan

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