Thornton v. State

OPINION

JANN, J.

Claimant is a prisoner with the Illinois Department of Corrections. Claimant seeks money damages in the amount of $20,000 as a result of injuries he allegedly sustained as a result of a fall from an allegedly defective toilet unit.

Claimant testified that the incident in question occurred on November 15,1988. He was housed in West House of Menard. He was sitting on the toilet and it broke to the floor causing a serious laceration in his back which resulted in seven sutures. Claimant demonstrated a scar approximately four inches long located 5% inches to the left of the midline…