City of Chicago v. Bork

This was an action on the case commenced by the appellee in the circuit court of Cook county, against the appellant, to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the appellant in suffering one of its public streets to be out of repair and in an unsafe condition, in consequence of which a wagon loaded with lumber, upon which lumber appellee was riding, tipped over, and he fell to the ground beneath the lumber and was severely and permanently injured. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the appellee for the sum of $6000, upon which the court,…