Deming v. City of Chicago

This cause is here on certiorari to review a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a judgment of the superior court against the city of Chicago for $10,000 in an action arising out of the death by electric shock of James L. Morris, Jr.

June 9, 1922, James L. Morris, Jr., a boy nine years and seven months old, was living with his father and mother and two younger brothers at 3437 North Claremont avenue, Chicago. Near his home was a poplar tree growing in a grass plot in the public street, where it had been for a number of years. It was about thirty or forty feet high, the lowest limb being…