Village of Chatsworth v. Rowe
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Livingston County; the. Hon. Alfred Sample, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1893.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lacey
This was an action on the case by appellee against appellant, charging it with negligently allowing its sidewalk to be and remain in an unsafe condition, and divers of its planks thereof to remain unfastened, whereby the appellee, while in the exercise of care, tripped and stumbled upon and against one of the unfastened planks, and was thereby thrown upon the said sidewalk and thereby bruised and injured her left hip, whereby she incurred an expense of $500 in endeavoring to be healed.
Other counts in the declaration stated the cause of the injury in slightly different form and averred as…
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