McEathron v. Township of Worth

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether a township is, in the absence of statute, exempt from tort liability.

Plaintiff, a minor, brought suit to recover damages because of an attractive nuisance said to be maintained by defendants. The complaint alleged that in July 1936 the Township of Worth, one of the defendants, through its agents leased and controlled a certain lot in the township which was vacant and unfenced and adjacent to the streets; that it kept stored there various sorts of road machinery and…