Doerr v. City of Freeport

On April 9,1922, between five and six o ’clock in the afternoon, appellee, a boy twelve years of age, was seated on the west curb of South Oak avenue, a public street in the City of Freeport, lacing a football when the left rear wheel of an automobile going in a northerly direction struck a depression in the pavement near the center of the street not far from where he was sitting and as a result thereof the car skidded and his left leg was crushed between the automobile and the curb, necessitating its amputation a few inches below the knee. On December 13,1922, this action was begun by…