Klemtner v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from the circuit court of Cook county. The appellee filed a declaration in three counts against the appellant, the city of Chicago, alleging that she had been injured through the negligence of the agents of the city in driving a certain fire engine, relying upon the act of 1931 imposing liability upon municipal corporations for such injuries. (Cahill’s Stat. 1931, chap. 24, par. 987, sub-sec. 1.) The city of Chicago filed a special plea alleging the unconstitutionality of this statute, to which special plea a demurrer was interposed and sustained.

The only order before us is…