Kaznowski v. City of La Salle

Full title: Anna Kaznowski, Minor, by Joseph Kaznowski, Her Next Friend, Appellee, v…

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District

Date published: Sep 17, 1942

316 Ill. App. 115 (Ill. App. Ct. 1942)

43 N.E.2d 852

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,792. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed September 17, 1942

HIGHWAYS AND STREETS, § 544^_ — injury occasioned by hole in street. Where a hole had existed in a city sidewalk for eight or ten years and pedestrians had tripped in it, the defect was not so slight that the city was not guilty of negligence, and a verdict and judgment of $400 for an eight-year-old child who tripped in the hole and fractured an arm was affirmed.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of La Salle county; Hon. ROBERT E. LARKIN, presiding.

Judgment affirmed. Heard in this court at May term, 1942.

M.J. Faletti, for appellant;

Hollerich Hurley, for appellee.

Opinion by JUSTICE DOVE.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed September 17, 1942.