Hodges v. Bearse
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook ■county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This was an action on the case, brought by Elizabeth Bearseagainst Leonard Hodges, to recover damages for a personal injury received by the plaintiff by means of the fall of a passenger elevator on the premises of the defendant. On the Uth day of December, 1886, the date of the injury, the defendant was, and for several years had been, the owner of a large five-story brick tenement house on the corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-second street, Chicago. The upper stories of said building were divided into apartments, which were usually-rented to and occupied by tenants, and at the date of…
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