City of Chicago v. Colman

This is an action to recover damages for personal injury from the breaking of a plank in a sidewalk, resulting in the leg of the appellee going through the hole, and the knee-cap striking the edge of the plank in front. .The leg was bruised, the appellee lost three or four weeks’ time, has suffered a good deal of pain, and was not cured at the time of the trial.

The only evidence as to the probable future condition of the appellee was from the physician, who said that the present swelling was the result of inflammation, and that he thought that the appellee could be cured, bnt how and in what…