Bainter v. Chalmers Township

The plaintiffs, Juanita and Lynn Bainter, appeal from the trial court’s granting the defendant’s, Chalmers Township’s, motion to dismiss count V of their complaint. This appeal involves a collision between the Bainters’ automobile and a school bus. The collision occurred on Timberhill Road in Chalmers Township (the township), a township of McDonough County, Illinois. The trial court granted the township’s motion to dismiss count V of the complaint for failure to state a cause of action relying on this court’s decision in Havens v. Harris Township (1988), 175 Ill. App. 3d 768, 530 N.E.2d 284.…