Village of Gibson v. Johnson

Appellee recovered a judgment below against appellant in an action on the case brought to recover damages for an injury caused by a fall on a sidewalk in the village.

Appellant appeals to reverse the judgment.

Appellee, an old man about seventy-three years of age, on the night of the twenty-fourth of December, 1877, was passing on Sangamon avenue, a street in the village of Gibson, when he slipped on the ice and fell, fracturing his arm two or three inches above the wrist, breaking the outside bone. Snow had fallen on the walk and it had been tramped down, and had frozen, and was slippery and…