Indlecoffer v. Village of Wadsworth

In Indlecoffer v. Village of Wadsworth, 282 Ill. App. 3d 933, 671 N.E.2d 1127, 219 Ill. Dec. 674 (1996), the court found that a church, through its sponsorship and organization of a scavenger hunt during which some of the participants were injured, could have proximately caused the plaintiffs' injuries. Indlecoffer, 282 Ill. App. 3d at 942, 671 N.E.2d at 1133. Because the church played an active role in setting the rules of the hunt, determining it would be conducted as a race by car, setting the route of the treasure hunt, inspecting the route, ordering the participants to ride in teams with the winner being the team who finished first, it set in motion a treasure hunt in which the team drivers could be expected to speed with the foreseeable consequence that an accident or collision would result. Indlecoffer, 282 Ill. App. 3d at 942-43, 671 N.E.2d at 1133. The issue in Indlecoffer involved proximate cause, not the existence of a duty.