LONG v. FRIESLAND

No. 5-86-0734.

178 Ill. App.3d 42 (1988)

532 N.E.2d 914

BARBARA J. LONG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CLAUDE FRIESLAND, as Highway Commissioner of Hillsboro Township, et al., Defendants-Appellants and Counterplaintiffs-Separate Appellees (Dayna Lee Watkins, Third-Party Plaintiff and Counterdefendant; Diana Holmes, Third-Party Defendant and Separate Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed December 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judge & Knight, Ltd., of Park Ridge (Jay S. Judge, Kristine A. Karlin, Sarah Hansen Sotos, and Elizabeth A. Brown, of counsel), for appellants Claude Friesland and Hillsboro Township.

Reed, Armstrong, Gorman & Coffey, of Edwardsville (Teresa E. Kessler, of counsel), for appellant Diana Holmes.

Michael R. Glenn, of Nokomis, for appellee.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

PRESIDING JUSTICE WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Montgomery County, plaintiff, Barbara Long, obtained a judgment in the amount of $215,000 against defendants Hillsboro Township, a municipal corporation, Claude Friesland, as highway commissioner of Hillsboro Township (hereinafter referred to collectively as the Hillsboro defendants), and Dayna Lee Watkins. Plaintiff...

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