City of Rockford v. Tripp

Citations

• 83 Ill. 247

Syllabus

<p>1. Ne&lisence—of city in providing hitching posts. If there be any duty resting upon a city in regard to the sufficiency of hitching posts it may provide, it is not bound to see that absolutely safe posts are set, and no more than ordinary care in the selection and setting of them is required. If they are such as would he reasonably sufficient,qmder all ordinary circumstances, for the purpose intended, the city will not be liable for injury caused by the breaking of one by a team fastened to it, and its running over a person.</p> <p>2. Same—no recovery where the injury is too remote. Where a horse with a cutter became frightened and ran away, and, in passing where a team was hitched to a post set by a city for a hitching post, frightened the team and caused them to break the post and run, and they, after running some distance, ran over a person in the street and injured him, it was held, in an action by him against the city, that the injury was too remote and was not the proximate consequence of the defect in the post, and that the city was not liable.</p>