City of Mattoon v. Worland
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Coles County; the Hon. Frank K. Dunn, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wright
Appellee sued appellant to recover for injuries — a broken leg — caused, as he alleged, by the defective cover of a catch-basin located in a public street, wrongfully and negligently suffered to remain and be in bad and unsafe repair and condition, and divers of the planks were rotten and unsafe.
In the first instance the Illinois Central Railroad Company was a joint defendant to the action on the alleged ground that the catch-basin constituted a part of the approach to its crossing of the street in question, but the suit was dismissed as to such defendant before the jury retired, and was…
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