Cox v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in Case, for personal injuries. Trial in the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for defendant; appeal by plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Horton
March 5, 1896, in the early evening, appellant stepped into a hole in the sidewalk on Hassau street, Chicago. He fell and was injured. It was a plank walk, and the hole was caused by one of the planks being broken near the center of the walk. The walk was about thirty inches above the ground. The hole in the walk was less than 200 feet from appellant’s residence.
December 21 and 22, 1895, there was a hole in this walk at the place where appellant was injured. While the walk was in that condition, and about January 1,1896, appellant passed over the place. About January 22,1896, a board or plank…
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