City of Elgin v. Riordan

This is an action on the case against appellant to recover damages by reason of an alleged injury received by appellee upon a sidewalk in the city of Elgin on the east side of State Street. The declaration contains four counts: The first averring that there were at, etc., loose and broken planks and holes upon and along said sidewalk and that a person who was then walking with appellee stepped on or near the end of one of the planks which was then and there loose, unfastened and unnailed in said walk ; that the same flew up and tripped her and threw her with great force and violence upon the…