Owen v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge, presiding. This was a case against the city of Chicago, to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, by reason of a defective sidewalk. The evidence tended to show the following facts: The plaintiff was passing north on the sidewalk, on the east side of ¡North State street, towards Indiana street, which runs east and west, intersecting State.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge, presiding. This was a case against the city of Chicago, to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, by reason of a defective sidewalk. The evidence tended to show the following facts: The plaintiff was passing north on the sidewalk, on the east side of ¡North State street, towards Indiana street, which runs east and west, intersecting State. The walk was connected with Indiana street by an apron of short planks, which spanned the gutter The upper ends of the planks are supported by a 2x4 scantling…
1Opinion of the CourtWilson, P. J.
There was evidence tending to show that the city was guilty of negligence in failing to use reasonable care to keep the sidewalk in a safe condition, and that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care and caution at the time of receiving the injury complained of. As however, there was a conflict of evidence on both points, it was important that the jury should have been accurately instructed as to the law of the case.
By the defendant’s third instruction, the jury were told that if the plaintiff had, the same day of the accident, passed over the sidewalk at the place where he fell, and…
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- Coates v. Town of CanaanSupreme Court of Vermont · 1878
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