City Trust & Savings Bank v. City of Kankakee

Mr. Presiding Justice Boggs

delivered the opinion of the court.

An action on the case .was instituted in the circuit-court of - Kankakee county by appellee, hereinafter called plaintiff, against appellant, hereinafter called defendant, to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate.

The original declaration was filed December 15,1926. The first count charges that on April 16, 1926, the City of Kankakee was in possession of a certain stone quarry located near Entrance Avenue, one of the public streets of said city; that said stone quarry had therein a body of water, to wit,.25 feet deep, into…