Hoekstra v. State

This is a claim brought by Claimant for damages for personal injuries sustained by her on January 7, 1981, when she fell on a patch of ice outside the rear entrance of the Secretary of State’s driver’s license facility in Lombard, Illinois.

The Secretary of State occupied the facility building, located in a shopping mall, under the terms of a lease introduced into evidence as Respondent’s exhibit No. 1. In addition to the use of the building, the Secretary of State also had available to it, adjacent to the building, a certain amount of blacktopped parking space for test lanes.

As a result of an…