City of Bloomington v. Osterle

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Third District, affirming the judgment of the circuit court of McLean county, in favor of appellee, against appellant, for $1000 and costs of suit. The action was for a personal injury alleged to have been received by a fall on a defective sidewalk within the corporate limits of the city of Blooming-ton, which the city authorities had negligently suffered to be and remain out of repair. The case is submitted to us on the same briefs and arguments filed in the Appellate Court. The principal ground of reversal there urged,—i. e.,…