State Trustee of the Illinois & Michigan Canal v. Daft

Citations

• 56 Ill. 121

Syllabus

<p>1. Negligence—action for, will not lie against the hoard of trustees— must he brought against the State trustee. The ruling in the case of Trustees of the Illinois and Michigan, Oanal v. Daft, 48 Ill. 96, holding, in an action on the case brought against the board of trustees, to recover damages for the loss of a canal boat, occasioned, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendants, that the action was alone maintainable against the State trustee, and would not, therefore, lie against the defendants as a board of trustees, re-affirmed.</p>