Dee v. City of Peru

delivered-the opinion of the court:

This cause is here on a certificate of importance of the Appellate Court for the Second District. Appellant seeks to reverse the judgment of that court affirming the judgment of the circuit court of LaSalle county in an action for damages for the death of appellee’s intestate, Joseph G. Dee, caused by drowning when the automobile in which he was riding as a passenger was driven off a bridge into the Illinois river at Peru through an opening occasioned by the turning of the bridge draw-span. The declaration charges negligence on the part of the appellant city…