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- Title: Stigler v. City of Chicago
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 16, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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The plaintiff, a year-old minor child, resided with his family in a privately-owned apartment located in the City of Chicago.
The complaint alleged that the building where the apartment was located was in a deteriorative condition, and that the walls
had been covered with a paint, analyzed as containing a high level of lead, which tended to fall from the walls in flakes.
The complaint further alleged that the plaintiff, on or about July 14, 1966, ingested quantities of this paint causing injuries
to him, and that the defendant, City of Chicago, was liable. The city moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that it was immune from suit by virtue of sections 2-103 and 2-105
of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, ch. 85, pars. 2-103, 2-105).
The circuit court of Cook County dismissed the complaint and the plaintiff appealed to this court, and contends that the Tort
Immunity Act is inapplicable to this action, or in the alternative, that if it is applicable, then said Act is unconstitutional
in that it denied the plaintiff due process and equal protection of the laws.