City of Bloomington v. Perdue
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. N. J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding. i This was an action on the case, brought by Amanda Perdue against the city of Bloomington, for damages for an injury claimed to have been received from a defective sidewalk. The plaintiff was a young woman twenty-eight years of age.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. N. J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding. i This was an action on the case, brought by Amanda Perdue against the city of Bloomington, for damages for an injury claimed to have been received from a defective sidewalk. The plaintiff was a young woman twenty-eight years of age. At the time of the injury she was living at the ladies’ boarding hall, and attending school at the Wesleyan. She, on her way home from school in company with another lady, while on the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
Questions ■ of fact do not in this case come before us for review. We think there was no error in refusing instruction No. 4, for the reason that the law therein stated had already been distinctly stated in other instructions given. Instruction Ho. 6, given at request of defendant, fully expresses the idea found in the refused instruction. Hor do we find anything faulty in the instructions Hos. 8, 9 and 10, given at request of plaintiff. These instructions do not refer as a standard of caution to “ what ordinary young ladies would do,” but to the conduct of “ an ordinarily prudent person,”…
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