Court Opinion

ID: 9533273
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:30:03.696382+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:59.545755
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HEIPLE, specially concurring: I concur with the result reached. However, I neither accept nor endorse the reasoning in the case of St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital v. City of Chicago (1975), 29 Ill. App. 3d 511. That opinion flies in the face of the plain language of the statute and, for whatever its significance, common sense. The sheriff, as agent, and the county, as principal, are made responsible by statute for the medical care of prisoners under the charge of the warden of the jail. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 75, par. 19.) The fact that the prisoner may be charged with an offense does not ipso facto place the prisoner under the charge of the sheriff. Physical charge of the prisoner is required.