City of Chicago v. Herz

Citations

• 87 Ill. 541

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — in leaving a sidewalk unsafe. Where city authorities suffered a sidewalk upon a frequented street, built some four feet above the ground, to become dilapidated and out of repair for a considerable time, and the stringers upon which the boards were nailed were rotten, so as not to hold the nails, and the boards loose, making the walk dangerous, and they, after notice of its unsafe condition, did not repair the same, so as to make it safe, and the plaintiff, while passing over the same with her child in her arms, stepped upon a short board, which gave way, causing her to fall upon her back, whereby she received an irreparable injury, and no want of prudence being attributable to her, it was held, that her right of recovery against the city, for the injury, was clear.</p>