Lidecker v. Kendall College

Plaintiffs Mary C. Lidecker, Antoinette Maglione, Maureen Baldridge and Mary Barrett were nursing students at defendant Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois, where defendant Dr. Andrew Cothran was president and defendant Albert L; Furbay was vice-president for academic affairs. Plaintiffs sued defendants after discovering that the school was not accredited. In a trial without a jury, the trial court granted defendants’ motion for judgment at the close of plaintiffs’ case in chief. Plaintiffs appeal, contending that the trial court’s decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence…