Moore v. Moyle

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1940, Agnes R.. Moore was a student at Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, Illinois. William J. Moyle was an instructor in the Department of Physical Education in the College and B. G-. Bramlage was acting as his assistant. The college, through its agents, purchased a trapeze to be used in a college circus. On May 2, 1940, while Miss Agnes R. Moore was practicing an act on the trapeze in preparation for the circus, the trapeze assembly fell with her to the hardwood floor of the gymnasium, resulting in the injury of Miss…