{"id":3303,"date":"2014-03-19T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2019-11-09T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T12:09:34","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-accepts-premises-liability-case-issue-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-accepts-premises-liability-case-issue-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Accepts Premises Liability Case on Issue of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a case lawyers usually refer to as a slip and fall matter, Virginia Bruns sued the City of Centralia when she fell on a raised section of a public sidewalk while going to an eye clinic.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The city\u2019s records showed that the roots of a nearby tree caused the sidewalk to crack and another person had tripped at the same place.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The eye clinic also had reported the condition to the City of Centralia and offered to remove the tree on its own.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The city\u2019s tree committee refused the clinic\u2019s offer due to the historic significance of the tree, even though the danger was open and obvious.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was reasonably foreseeable that a patron of the clinic might be distracted while walking to the clinic.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Under the circumstances, the question for the Illinois Supreme Court is whether the city\u2019s alleged breach of its duty of reasonable care should have been a fact question to be determined by a jury.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-accepts-premises-liability-case-issue-duty\/#more-3303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case lawyers usually refer to as a slip and fall matter, Virginia Bruns sued the City of Centralia when she fell on a raised section of a public sidewalk while going to an eye clinic.\u00a0 The city\u2019s records showed that the roots of a nearby tree caused the sidewalk to crack and another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,126,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-illinois-supreme-court","category-premises-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Supreme Court Accepts Premises Liability Case on Issue of Duty &#8212; 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