Opinion
Gen. No. 43,869. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed February 3, 1947 Rehearing denied February 17, 1947 Released for publication February 17, 1947
HIGHWAYS AND STREETS, § 554 — sufficiency of evidence to sustain verdict for boy injured by collapse of building. In action against city for personal injuries to 11-year-old boy, where an old one-story frame building collapsed and fell on boy when he hurried from it out on to sidewalk, and defendant city contended that it did not have actual or constructive notice of the delapidated condition of the building, held that it was duty of city to maintain its streets in a reasonably safe condition; that, if it failed to do so after notice, actual or constructive, it was liable to one who sustained damages on account of such negligence; that question of notice was for jury, and that their verdict for plaintiff was supported by sufficient evidence.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. JOHN F. HAAS, Judge, presiding.
Judgment affirmed. Heard in the first division, first district, this court at the October term, 1946.
Barnet Hodes, Corporation Counsel, for appellant;
J. Herzl Segal and L. Louis Karton, Head of Appeals and Review Division, Joseph C. Stastny and Sydney R. Drebin, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel;
Barnie E. Frankel, for appellee.
Not to be published in full.Opinion filed February 3, 1947; rehearing denied February 17, 1947; released for publication February 17, 1947.