Welch v. City of Chicago

delivered the opinion .of the court.

This is an appeal hy the defendant, City of Chicago, from a judgment obtained in the circuit court by the plaintiff, Bertha Welch, for $18,000 for injuries alleged to have been received by her as the result of falling in the street, near the southeast comer of Madison and State Streets in the City of Chicago.

The accident happened on March 3, 1920. The suit was brought on March 2, 1921, and the declaration, consisting of two counts, was filed on March 7, 1921. The City of Chicago was then sole defendant.

On March 2, 1922, the Peoples Gas Light. & Coke…