Bruno v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. J. Cooke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Thomson
delivered the opinion of the court.
By this action the plaintiff, Bruno, sought to recover damages from the defendant, City of Chicago-, on account of injury to his two-flat building which he alleged had been caused by dynamite blasts incident to the construction of a water tunnel near by. The declaration alleged, that the defendant “did proceed with said work in such a careless, negligent and reckless manner and with an ntter disregard to the rights of the plaintiff * * * and did so construct said tunnel that the walls of said tunnel or sewer did crack, crumble…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Rigney v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
- McDonald v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
- Peck v. Chicago Railways Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1915
- George H. Hess Co. v. DawsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
- Otis Elevator Co. v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
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