Sommer v. City of Taylorville

Plaintiff, Jerome Sommer, brought suit through his father and next friend, Vincent Sommer, to recover for personal injuries sustained in a diving accident at Lake Taylorville. The father of Jerome Sommer brought suit for medical expenses incurred by reason of the injury. At the time of trial the complaint consisted of three counts, one for negligence with a prayer for damages in the amount of the limits of a policy of liability insurance (*100,000), a second charging the city with wilful wanton misconduct and praying for a judgment for *750,000, and a third by the father of plaintiff for medical…