City of Chicago v. Selz, Schwab & Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
On June 8, 1900, the appellee, Selz, Schwab & Co., a corporation, owned a building on the north-west corner of Monroe and Market streets, in the city of Chicago. There was a fire hydrant in front of the building, connected at the bottom with the water main in the center of the street by a pipe six inches in diameter. It constituted a part of the water-works system of the appellant city of Chicago and was under its control. In the evening of that day there was a leak at the bottom of the hydrant, and some water was coming from the leak through small crevices in the floor of the basement of the…
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