BERTOLIS v. COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DIST. NO. 7

No. 4-95-1018.

671 N.E.2d 79 (1996)

283 Ill. App.3d 874

219 Ill.Dec. 414

Jennifer Miller BERTOLIS and Deborah Bergman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7, Gillespie, Illinois and the Gillespie, Illinois Board of Education, as the governing authority of Gillespie, Illinois Community Unit School District No. 7, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided October 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan L. Skelton (Argued), Reed, Armstrong, Gorman, Coffey, Gilbert & Mudge, Edwardsville, for Community Unit School District No. 7, Gillespie Illinois Board Of Education.

Larry F. Clark (Argued), Law Offices of Larry F. Clark, Carlinville, for Jennifer Miller Bertolis, Deborah Bergman.


Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a personal injury action filed against a local public entity by a plaintiff whose cause of action accrued when she was a minor. On appeal, we are asked to determine which of two applicable but conflicting statutes of limitation, contained in section 13-211 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (735 ILCS 5/13-211 (West 1994)) and section 8-101 of the Local Governmental...

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