City of Fulton v. Green
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside County; the Hon. Frank D. Ramsay, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit by Mrs. Sarah Green against the city of Fulton to recover compensation for injuries received from falling on a defective sidewalk. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for $500. By requirement of the trial judge she remitted $100 and judgment was rendered in her favor for $400. The defendant appeals.
The plaintiff and her husband were going home from church, by the usual and most direct route, about nine o’clock at night, upon the only sidewalk on the street. The walk was of wood and one of the boards or plank tipped…
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