Gardner v. Village of Chicago Ridge

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE STAMOS

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff sued the Villages of Chicago Ridge and Worth, police officers Richard Demblon and Sgt. Bernard Bartuch of the Village of Worth Police Department, police officers Stanley Wank and Steve Horvath of the Village of Chicago Ridge Police Department and Frank Skubis, Gary LaValley, Richard Souliotis and Larry Posthuma for personal injuries he sustained. The theory of plaintiff’s case is that, under the circumstances shown by the evidence, defendant police officers and villages were negligent in not protecting him from attack by…