Browning v. City of Aurora

As a result of a jury trial the plaintiff obtained a judgment for $3000' against defendant on account of injuries received by stepping in a bole of a culvert in defendant city and it has appealed.

Intersecting Morgan street at an alley between Le$ and Delta streets, at the time of the accident, was a ditch over which was a concrete culvert. Morgan *479street, or avenue, ran north and south and was graded and graveled. The cut for the grading extended to the curb line of the street. The sidewalk portion of the street had never been improved further than to place thereon a few gravel in places.…