Prickett v. Pardridge
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. McGoorty, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
Plaintiff, a child four years old, went on the roof of the three-story tenement house number 167 West Superior street and attempted to jump from the roof across a court four and a half feet wide to the roof of number 165, and in so doing fell and was injured. The defendants owned and were in control of the buildings numbers 167 and 165, and also of a four-story tenement house fronting on Wells street and extending back to the side of the building number 167 Superior street. Plaintiff in an action of tort for negligence recovered a judgment for eighty-five hundred dollars, to reverse which the…
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