Rommel v. State

Claimants, Carl P. Rommel and Ileene K. Rommel, his wife, and their granddaughter, Janet Stout, by her father and next friend, James J. Stout, seek to recover from respondent for its negligence in failing to light and warn of the presence of barricades, located in the center of one of the public highways, maintained and controlled by respondent.

The Departmental Report on file herein reads in part as follows:

“Marked U. S. Highway Routes 12 and 20 include that part of 95th Street in Cook County, Illinois, between marked U. S. Route 45 on the west and marked Illinois Route 7 (Southwest Highway)…