Appellate Court Sides with Patron Who Slipped and Fell on Bleachers after Game

In a majority decision, a panel of Illinois state appeals court judges has reversed a trial court, which granted summary judgment to a school district that had been sued by a man who slipped and fell in the bleachers while attending his daughter's high school basketball game.   In so ruling, the appellate court found that questions of fact had arisen about doctrine of natural accumulation (of rain or snow inside the gym), and whether the school district, Sandoval School District 501, might