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141/ 4 CASES • 1 . Prickett v. City of Hillsboro, 323 Ill .App. 235 (1944) . Plaintiff sued the city for the death of a boy allegedly due to the negligence of a city employee at a city owned and operated swimming pool . The plaintiff' s son was shot and killed while floating in an inner tube by an employee who operated a concession stand on park land adjacent to the swimming pool . The employee was known to be of 'drunken habits and unbalanced mental condition . " 2. Harvey v. Clyde Park District, 32 Ill . 2d 60 ( 1964) . A child was injured as he was thrown to the ground while using a slide in a park district park. Parents filed suit charging accident was allegedly caused by the negligence of the park district in main- taining playground equipment. The park district claimed governmental immunity. 3 , Lynch v. Board of Education of Collinsville, 412 N .E . 2d 447 . (Supreme Court case in the State of Illinois , September 1980) Female high school student was injured when she was playing in a powder puff football game on the high school grounds . In prior years powder puff games were conducted between halves of the homecoming football game as a school-sponsored event. However, this was not the case in 1974 . The girls wanted to play anyhow; three teachers agreed to volunteer as coaches although they were not authorized by the school to be official coaches . Practices were conducted on school grounds after school ; girls used the locker rooms . The game was played on the Sunday afternoon of homecoming weekend on the school football field. Girls did not wear uniforms and Lynch was injured when her unprotected head hit the ground . Although this was not a school-sponsored program, plaintiff charged defendant school district with negligent conduct in failing to provide the girls with football uniforms , particularly with helmuts . 4. Horstein v. State, 30 AppDiv (2d 1012 , 294 NYS (2d) 321 ( 1968) . Plaintiff was struck in the eye by a sliced golf ball driven by a 12 year old boy on the' golf course . Suit was based upon the negligent construction of the course . 5 . passafaro v. Board of Education, 43 AD (2d) 918 353 NYS (2d) 178 (1974) A student arrived for gym class without his sneakers . The plaintiff claimed he was told to take off his shoes and work out in socks , but the defendant alleged the student was directed to stay at side of gym and observe . Plaintiff was going to tumble but as he ran toward the mats , he slipped before reaching them and was injured. 6. Branzel v. Concord, CalRptr 167 , 247 CalApp (2d) 68 (1966) . A 16 year old and his family went to an area maintained by the city for flying model airplanes to fly a plane he had recently built. After making about a dozen revolutions , the plastic handle slipped from the boy' s hand and the plane went soaring toward the power lines . The father grabbed the handle, but a guidewire of the plane came in contact with the high voltage wires/ and the father was electrocuted. •