American Ambassador Casualty Co. v. City of Chicago

PRESIDING JUSTICE LaPORTA

delivered the opinion of the court:

The subject of this appeal is the dismissal with prejudice of plaintiff’s complaint which sought recovery from defendant of $10,552, the amount paid by plaintiff to its insured for the loss of the insured’s automobile. The trial court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss which asserted that defendant was immune from suit under the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 85, par. 4 — 102). Plaintiff appeals, asserting that (1) defendant was liable under a bailment…