White v. City of Rockford

Full title: Ruth B. White, Appellee, v. City of Rockford, Appellant

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District

Date published: Jun 28, 1940

306 Ill. App. 297 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

28 N.E.2d 582

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,556. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed June 28, 1940 Rehearing denied August 1, 1940

HIGHWAYS AND STREETS, § 541^_ — defective sidewalk, sufficiency of evidence. Pedestrian injured by falling on defective walk was properly granted judgment, where hole had existed in sidewalk for over a year on a busy street in the business section of the city, several witnesses testified to falls they had sustained at same spot to show knowledge of defect on part of the city, and at time plaintiff was injured the sidewalk was crowded with people.

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

Appeal from Circuit Court of Winnebago county; Hon. THOMAS E. GILL, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in this court at May term, 1940.

A.V. Essignton, Corporation Counsel, Carroll H. Nelson and William H. Barrick, for appellant;

B. Jay Knight, David F. Madden and Fredrick H. Haye, for appellee.

Opinion by JUSTICE HUFFMAN.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed June 28, 1940; rehearing denied August 1, 1940.