City of Chicago v. McNally

This is an appeal from a judgment for $10,000 recovered by appellee against appellant, in an action for negligence, per quod it is averred the appellee was injured. The appellant pleaded the general issue to the declaration, and no question is raised as to the sufficiency of the pleadings. The evidence for the plaintiff (appellee here) tends to prove that April 7, 1901, between ten and eleven o’clock a. m., she and her sister-in-law were walking along the west sidewalk of Forty-second avenue, in the city of Chicago, which lies north and south, and came to a place in' the sidewalk where a…