Graham v. City of Chicago

The plaintiff, Flise Graham, recovered a judgment against the city of Chicago in the superior court of Cook county for $16,000 damages for personal injuries. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court, and the cause is brought to this court by certiorari.

The gist of the action as laid in the declaration is that the city of Chicago negligently permitted water from an adjacent playground to flow over and upon a sidewalk of said city during the month of January, 1926, by reason whereof the surface of the sidewalk became covered with ice, slippery and unsafe for public travel; that…