HODGES v. ST. CLAIR COUNTY

No. 5-93-0581.

636 N.E.2d 67 (1994)

263 Ill. App.3d 490

200 Ill.Dec. 876

Mary Jean HODGES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Illinois, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

June 17, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin C. Paulson, Kassly, Bone, Becker, Dix, Reagan & Young, P.C., Belleville, for appellant.

P.K. Johnson, Jr., Johnson & Johnson, Belleville, for appellee.


Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

On April 22, 1990, Mary Jean Hodges, a 75-year-old woman, visited her son who was confined at the St. Clair County jail. Hodges had visited her son on at least three occasions, and on each of these occasions she sat on a stool equipped with a back. At some time between these visits and her April 22 visit the old stools were removed and replaced with new stools that were slightly lower and which were not equipped...

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