City of Elgin v. Nofs

delivered the "opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Second District affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Kane county in favor of appellee for §15,000, for injuries sustained by him by falling through a sidewalk on a bridge over the Fox river, situated within the corporate limits of the city of Elgin.

The first contention of appellant is that the court erred in declining, at the close of all the evidence, to peremptorily instruct the jury to return a verdict in its favor. The evidence introduced upon behalf of plaintiff tended to show…