Kunkel v. City of Chicago

Why the Superior Court directed a verdict for the defendant, the City of Chicago, we are not informed by the abstract, and the city has filed no brief. The record shows that on Johnson street was a plank sidewalk, six feet wide, raised three or four feet from the ground, on the side of which, next to the traveled street, there had been a railing affixed to posts coming up through holes six inches square in the plank, near the edge of the sidewalk.

Some two months before the accident which is the subject of this suit, that railing, with the posts to which it had been affixed, had been removed…