Ward v. City of Chicago

This was an action on the case brought by-Mary A. Ward against the city of Chicago, to recover damages for a personal injury caused, as is alleged, by the negligence of the city. At the time of the injury, West Jackson street was being macadamized, and at the place where it was crossed by Throop street it was then, and for a considerable time had been, in an unfinished condition. The evidence tends to show that at that place the surface of West Jackson street between the curb-stones was covered with small broken rock; that the ditch or gutter next to the curb-stone was about two or d two and…