Village of Carterville v. Cook

The evidence given upon the trial tended to prove that the plaintiff, a boy of some fifteen years of age, while, in the observance of ordinary care for his own safety, passing along a much used public sidewalk of the. defendant, was, by reason. of the inadvertent or negligent shoving by one boy of another boy against him, jostled or pushed from the sidewalk, at a point where it was elevated some six feet above the ground, and was unprotected by railing or other guard, and thereby seriously injured in one of his limbs.

The objection urged against the ruling in refusing and modifying…