Opinion
Gen. No. 41,411. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed July 1, 1941
HIGHWAYS AND STREETS, § 541 — sidewalk defective, sufficiency of evidence. In action against city for injuries sustained by pedestrian when he stepped into a hole in a sidewalk and fell, evidence of eyewitnesses and photographs established that the sidewalk was so defective as to render city liable for damages, and verdict for $30,000 was not excessive where plaintiff sustained fracture of finger and skull, he suffered fainting spells, he suffered total loss of hearing in one ear and 60 per cent loss in the other, his leg was injured, and he was unable to resume his work after the accident.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; Hon. GEORGE W. BRISTOW, presiding.
Affirmed. Heard in second division, first district, this court at October term, 1940.
Barnet Hodes, Corporation Counsel, for appellant;
J. Herzl Segal, Adam E. Patterson, L. Louis Karton, Sydney R. Drebin and Louis H. Geiman, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel;
Irving G. Zazove and Charney Servos, for appellee.
"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed July 1, 1941.