Rittershouse v. City of Springfield

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

This is an action in two counts by plaintiffs Bertie E. Rittershouse and her husband Paul L. Rittershouse for the aggregate of $22,500 damages for the wife’s personal injuries and the husband’s loss of the wife’s services which injuries allegedly were sustained when plaintiff wife stepped from the curb and fell on the crosswalk at the southeast corner of the intersection of St. Louis Street and South Avenue on the Public Square in Springfield. Plaintiffs’ claim was stated on the theory of defendant City’s negligence in permitting the public street to become and remain…