City of Chicago v. Merwin
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term 1901.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action to recover loss sustained by reason of personal injury brought about, as was contended, by the negligence of the city.
It appeared upon the trial that the plaintiff, then a girl five years of age, stepped through a defective’ sidewalk and sustained a fracture of the thigh bone. She was immediately taken to a hospital, where she was attended to, her limb being put in a plaster cast. Shortly thereafter she was taken to her home, laid in bed, and had a weight fixed to her limb. She was in bed nine weeks. As a…
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