Melford v. Gaus & Brown Const. Co., Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a personal injury action in behalf of a minor child injured while playing on and about the excavation and foundation for a new building on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. Verdict and judgment were in plaintiff’s favor for $20,000 and defendant appeals.

The minor, Melford Jr., then nine years of age, was injured June 27, 1950, when, while playing tag with another boy, he fell backwards over the front edge of the wooden platform covering the foundation into the space between the platform and the Lincoln street sidewalk. He fell twelve…