Williams v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CLINTON COM.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves a suit for damages by plaintiff George Williams, a former Clinton High School coach, against the defendant Board of Education of Clinton Community Unit School District No. 15 (Board), for the loss of plaintiff’s personal coaching library which had been contained in plaintiff’s file cabinet and removed and thrown away by defendant’s agents. Plaintiff had been a football coach at Clinton High School for 10 years. Prior to that he had coached for seven years at other high schools. His career as a player had spanned…