Latimer v. Latimer

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE JOHNSON

delivered the opinion of the court;

The plaintiff, Ethel Latimer, sued the defendants, Richard C. and Ann Latimer, in the circuit court of Cook County to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while in defendants home. On October 14, 1976, the trial court sustained defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s case and dismissed plaintiff’s cause. The plaintiff appeals and we reverse.

This court will consider (1) whether defendant had a duty to warn plaintiff, a gratuitous licensee, of any hidden dangers of which defendants had…