Court Opinion

ID: 9860055
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:08:33.69357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:17:20.007008
License: Public Domain

KILEY, J., dissenting. In testing the propriety of the directed verdict against plaintiff, we apply the familiar rule favoring him. Under that rule I am of the opinion that there is some evidence that in previous years fireworks were exploded in the presence of Chicago policemen in the City streets in violation of the fireworks permit, and that there was actual and constructive notice to the City of those violations as well as actual notice of the violation on the day of the injury. Furthermore, in the instant parade the policemen not only did not enforce the limitation in the fireworks display permit but furthered the violation by policing the parade in which fireworks were being illegally exploded. There was therefore something more than mere omission to enforce. It seems to me that this case calls for a further step in the direction of the trend away from governmental immunity shown in the recent case of Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit Dist. No. 302, 18 Ill.2d 11, and the more recent Peters v. Bellinger, 22 Ill.App.2d 105.