MT. ZION STATE BANK & TRUST v. CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS INC.

No. 5-93-0723.

641 N.E.2d 1228 (1994)

267 Ill.App.3d 402

204 Ill.Dec. 609

MT. ZION STATE BANK & TRUST, Guardian of the Estate of Dale Beavers, Jr., a minor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Londrigan, Londrigan, Potter & Randle, P.C., and Timothy J. Londrigan, Londrigan & Londrigan, Springfield, for appellant.

Karen L. Kendall, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria, and Frederick P. Velde, Springfield, for appellee.


Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child * * *." 1 Corinthians 13:11.

If a babysitter left a two-year-old toddler alone in a bathroom whose tub was half-filled with water, and if, tragically, the child climbed into the tub and drowned, most people would sympathize with the child and the family, but they would also have a question in the back of their minds....

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