Evans v. City of Kankakee
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Frank L. Hooper, Judge presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
This was an action on the case commenced in the circuit court of Kankakee county by Harriet Evans against the city of Kankakee. The declaration contained six counts, to which a general demurrer was sustained and the case was dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff, which judgment has been affirmed by the Appellate Court for the Second District, and the plaintiff has sued out a writ of error from this court to review the judgment of the Appellate Court.
The declaration charged, in substance, that the city of Kankakee, in the month of December, 1904, was in the use and control of the first floor…
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