Legal Opinion
Bedtke v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided May 5, 1926No. Gen. No. 30,632PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Taylor
The plaintiff, F. A. Bedtke, claiming that the defendant, the City of Chicago, through the negligence of its servants, in the use of a portable incinerator in an alley back of the plaintiff’s premises, caused the destruction by fire of certain personal property belonging to him, began a suit of trespass on the case in the superior court against the defendant, the City of Chicago, and after a trial before the court, without a jury, recovered a judgment in the sum of $2,225.17. This is an appeal by the City from that judgment.
The declaration consists of two counts. The first alleged that the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Seifert v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Johnston v. District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- City of Chicago v. SebenIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
- Johnston v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1913
- Wilcox v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Love v. Glencoe Park DistrictAppellate Court of Illinois · 1933
- Stein v. West Chicago Park CommissionersAppellate Court of Illinois · 1928
- Hendricks v. Urbana Park DistrictAppellate Court of Illinois · 1932
- Johnston v. City of East MolineAppellate Court of Illinois · 1949
- Schmidt v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1936
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