LEONARD v. PITSTICK DAIRY LAKE & PARK, INC.

No. 3-82-0722.

124 Ill. App.3d 580 (1984)

464 N.E.2d 644

RICHARD LEONARD, A Minor, by Karen Leonard, his Mother and Next Friend, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PITSTICK DAIRY LAKE AND PARK, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Rehearing denied June 28, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Heine, Peter F. Ferracuti, and Karen L. Kendall, all of Peter F. Ferracuti & Associates, of Ottawa, for appellant.

T. Donald Henson and Walter J. Zukowski, both of Herbolsheimer, Lannon, Henson, Duncan & Reagan, P.C., of La Salle, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE BARRY delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Richard Leonard was rendered a quadriplegic as a result of a spinal cord injury incurred when he performed a running dive in the shallow water at defendant's commercial lake in La Salle County, Illinois. Plaintiff filed a suit for personal injuries against Pitstick Dairy Lake and Park, Inc., the corporate owner-operator of the beach, and after a lengthy jury trial, the jury...

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