Legal Opinion
Cooke v. Maxum Sports Bar & Grill, Ltd.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 28, 2018No. 2-17-02492-17-05372-17-0550 consUnpublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLAREN
¶ 1 On October 24, 2010, plaintiffs, Richard Cooke and Rebecca Oberjat, were attacked and battered in a parking lot after leaving a nightclub operated by defendant Maxum Sports Bar & Grill, Ltd. (Maxum). Plaintiffs and their attacker, Antoine Matthews, were all patrons of Maxum prior to the attack. Matthews was subsequently convicted of aggravated battery and served three years in prison.
¶ 2 Subsequently, plaintiffs sued Maxum and Maxum's owners, defendants Gregory M. Serafin and Joseph B. Topor, individually and as Maxum's agents, seeking damages for their injuries. Plaintiffs alleged that…
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