Carter v. New Trier East High School

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCARIANO

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Earlest Carter’s complaint alleged that on September 1, 1990, defendants acted negligently and willfully and wantonly with respect to the maintenance of tennis courts on which he was playing when he backed into a hole, injuring his ankle. New Trier East High School was dismissed as a party defendant on August 19, 1992. The board filed an answer denying the allegations forming the gravamen of the complaint and thereafter sought summary judgment, which the trial judge granted.

Plaintiff now appeals, claiming that the judge…