Bates v. Doria

PRESIDING JUSTICE NASH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Kelly Ann Bates, appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendants, Sheriff Richard Doria, the County of Du Page and the Du Page County sheriff’s merit commission. In this action, plaintiff sought recovery for damages sustained when she was assaulted by Du Page County Deputy Sheriff Richard A. Schramm, who was dismissed below by plaintiff as a defendant herein and is not a party to this appeal.

The circumstances from which this case arose are as follows. On July 22, 1981, plaintiff was walking her dog along the…