Cornell v. City of Chicago

The appellee, hereinafter called plaintiff, in a suit for damages for personal injuries against the appellant, hereinafter called defendant, obtained a verdict for the sum of $2800; the Court entered judgment thereon and the defendant appealed.

On the west side of 43rd avenue, between Montrose boulevard and Sunnyside avenue, a distance of one block, in Chicago, the plank sidewalk had been condemned and a cement sidewalk built from Sunnyside avenue south to about the middle of the block, and from this point south to Montrose boulevard was the old plank sidewalk, in which there were certain…