Ondes v. State

OPINION

Montana, C.J.

This is a claim for personal injuries brought pursuant to section 8(d) of the Court of Claims Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 37, par. 439.8.) Claimant alleges that he was injured as a result of Respondent’s negligent failure to warn of a “defect or weakness in a T-bar light fixture located in the Bubble Gym of the S.I.U. Edwardsville campus.” On December 16,1986, said T-bar light fixture broke and fell upon Claimant when Claimant attempted to “stretch” himself by hanging from the apparatus.

The facts surrounding this accident are not seriously in dispute. The Claimant, Allen…