City of Rock Island v. Starkey
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. W. H. Gest, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
delivered the opinio- of .» court:
The Appellate Court affirmed a judgment recovered by appellee in the circuit court of Rock Island county, against appellant, for damages on account of an injury alleged to have been received by falling on a defective sidewalk. The declaration charged that the defendant wrongfully and negligently suffered said sidewalk to be arid remain in bad and unsafe repair and condition, and divers of the stringers and planks wherewith the said sidewalk was laid to be and remain rotten, broken and unfastened. It was denied that the sidewalk was out of repair, but the…
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