Blade v. Site of Fort Dearborn Building Corp.

Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $25,000 for injuries received by plaintiff from being struck, while on the street, by a plank or board which she alleged and claimed fell from the scaffolding of a building, known as the London Guarantee & Accident Building, then in process of construction.

The case was submitted to the jury on the first two counts of the amended declaration. Two other counts were dismissed on plaintiff’s motion before the case was so submitted. They named additional defendants who were never served and were…