Simon v. City of Chicago

Plaintiff brought this action to recover for personal injuries received while she, alighting from the front end of a street car, stepped into a hole which she claims the city negligently permitted to remain in the street in close proximity to the step of the car. The receivers of the corporations constituting the Chicago Surface Lines were also named defendants, but the suit was dismissed as to them and proceeded against the city alone. The jury rendered a verdict of $2,250, upon which judgment was entered, and defendant seeks a reversal.

Plaintiff testified in her own behalf that she was…