Village of Jefferson v. Chapman
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Hollín S. Williamson, Judge, presiding. This was an action by the appellee against the village corporation, appellant, to recover for a personal injury to the former, while traveling on the sidewalk along St. Charles Avenue after dark December 2, 1885, occasioned by the sudden tipping of a loose plank of a defectively constructed crossing over a ditch at the intersection of said street with Center Street in said…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Hollín S. Williamson, Judge, presiding. This was an action by the appellee against the village corporation, appellant, to recover for a personal injury to the former, while traveling on the sidewalk along St. Charles Avenue after dark December 2, 1885, occasioned by the sudden tipping of a loose plank of a defectively constructed crossing over a ditch at the intersection of said street with Center Street in said village. The declaration contained three counts, of which the first, after setting out the legal duty of the corporation,…
1Opinion of the CourtMcAllister, J.
The village of Jefferson, the appellant, is a municipal corporation, created under the general statute relative to cities and villages in this State, by which the corporation is invested with ample powers in trust for the purpose, and from which the legal duty to the public arises, of keeping its streets and sidewalks in a reasonably safe condition for travel in the ordinary modes, by day as well as by night, by all persons in the exercise of ordinary care. 2 Dillon on Mun. Corp., 3d Ed., See. 1019. And it is the general, well settled law in this State, that such corporation is liable to any…
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