Hobbs v. City of Chicago

By this appeal plaintiff seeks the reversal of an adverse judgment upon a directed verdict on the trial of a suit brought by her to recover compensation for injuries received, owing, as she alleges, to the negligence of defendant with reference to its sidewalk in front of number 8718 South Morgan street, Chicago.

In the first count of her declaration plaintiff alleged that the city negligently suffered a longitudinal depression at or near the center of the sidewalk and that water and falling snow would accumulate therein and freeze, causing this portion of the sidewalk to become slippery, and…