Bleiman v. City of Chicago

Plaintiff sued the City of Chicago to recover damages for injuries resulting from a fall on a driveway along Ogden avenue, leading from the street over the sidewalk into an adjacent garage. Judgment was entered on a verdict of the jury for $2,000, from which the city appeals.

There is substantially no dispute as to- the salient facts. The accident occurred September 20, 1939. Plaintiff was then employed as service and sales manager for an automobile concern. When only two years old he had been struck on the left knee with a rake, which subsequently caused the knee to become rigid. Later, in…