Hansen v. Gromoll

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

By this appeal defendant seeks to reverse a judgment for $2,000 rendered against him after verdict by the superior court of Cook county in an action for damages for personal injuries to plaintiff, occasioned by her receiving an electric shock from certain uninsulated wires while turning on an electric light on the inside of a certain storeroom in the basement of an apartment building, of which defendant was the owner, at No. 5317 Blackstone avenue, in the City of Chicago.

Plaintiff was the lessee and tenant of a “suite of 7 rooms…