Pond v. City of Chicago

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment for defendant. This case involves the city’s liability for injuries sustained by plaintiff by reason of her fall over a sidewalk on Sheridan Eoad, some feet south of Irving Park Boulevard in Chicago. The basis for the motion for summary judgment was the fact that the sidewalk involved was Chicago Park District property.

In 1869 the legislature created the Commissioners of Lincoln Park, investing them with governmental powers in respect to the park. Private Laws, 1869, vol 1, pp 374-75, §§ 19, 21, 27. The commissioners held the fee in trust for the…