Case ID: ill-app_182/html/0402-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Craves", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John F. Devine, Administrator, Appellant, v. The South Park Commissioners, Appellee.
    Gen. No. 17,930.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. William H. McSubelt, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1911.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed October 15, 1913.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by John F. Devine, administrator of the estate of Jacob Adelman, deceased, against the South Park. Commissioners, a corporation, to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Parks, § 9
      
      —when park commissioners liable. An action cannot be maintained against park commissioners as a body corporate for negligence resulting in damage or injury to individuals, since such commissioners are a body corporate exercising political functions.
    Lee D. Mathias and Charles H. Robinson, for appellant.
    Robert Redfield, for appellee; Tolman & Redfield and Henry P. Chandler, of counsel.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Craves

delivered the opinion of the court.