Heimann v. Kinnare

This is an action on the case, brought in the superior court of Cook county by the appellee, as administrator, against the appellant, to recover damages for negligently causing the death of his intestate. The declaration contains three counts. The first count charges that the defendant was the owner of certain premises located in said county, on which there was a certain dangerous hole of great depth, to-wit, of twenty-four feet, hidden from view, and which was filled with water and covered with ice, on and to which the public had free access, yet the defendant, well knowing the matters…