City of Carmi v. Ervin
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Error to the Circuit Court of White County; the Hon. Edmund D. Youngblood, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Sample
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellee brought this suit to recover damages for a personal injury, and obtained a judgment for $1,250. The negligence is alleged to consist in allowing a street to become and remain out of repair, so that appellee in passing over it, seated on a load of hay, on the 26th day of April, 1892, was thrown off and his right leg broken at the ankle joint. The facts in brief are'that the portion of the street where the accident occurred was a fill of some fifteen feet, which was in a good state of repair in the fall of 1891; that owing to…
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