Court Opinion

ID: 9517768
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:31:41.322347+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:34.033034
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE PINCHAM, specially concurring: Although the parties agreed during oral argument of the instant cause before this court that there were no signs or posted information in or around the Rosemont Horizon (or elsewhere) which indicated that it was owned and operated by the Village of Rosemont, plaintiff did not allege that the village in any way endeavored to conceal its ownership and operation of the Horizon. Nor did plaintiff assert any inability, by the simple, usual and customary means, to discover that the Village of Rosemont was the owner and operator of the Rosemont Horizon. Plaintiffs contention that the defendant, the Village of Rosemont, a municipal corporation organized under the laws of the State, was bound by the provisions of the Assumed Business Name Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 96, par. 4 et seq.), is fallacious, because section 4 thereof provides, “This Act shall in no way affect or apply to any corporation duly organized under the laws of this State ***.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 96, par. 7.) Plaintiff’s attempts to rectify his failure to have, through normal channels, ascertained that the Village of Rosemont was the owner and operator of the Rosemont Horizon and to have timely notified the Village of Rosemont of his injuries and of his intent to file and to have properly filed his suit therefor, although somewhat ingenious, must fail.