De Wolf v. Field
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Harry C. Moran, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Taylor
On the morning of July 1, 1912, appellee, a woman about sixty-two years of age, while descending a basement stairway in the department store belonging to the appellant, fell and broke her right leg. Subsequently she brought suit in the Circuit Court and obtained a verdict for $5,000. A new trial was granted and, at the second trial, she obtained a judgment for $1,950, which the defendant now seeks to reverse.
The declaration contains but one count. Therein it is averred, among other things, that the stairway did not conform to the building ordinance of the City of Chicago, which ordinance…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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