Finn v. State

This is an action commenced and maintained by claimant, Lillie Finn, to recover damages for personal injuries, which she sustained on July 22, 1956, when she stepped into a hole in the playground area where there were swings, teeter-totters and slides, which area was located approximately 500 feet from the Lodge in the Pere Marquette State Park near Grafton, Illinois. At said time she was watching her small granddaughter play on the swings.

The complaint charged that respondent, through its agents and servants, negligently, carelessly and unlawfully maintained said park in one or more of the…