Jefferson v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• holding that nothing in the West decision justifies Gapinske's excision of the word \initially\ from section 3-104
• holding that a plaintiff’s allegations relating to a city’s failure to provide a “flagman” at a construction site and failure to place traffic cones in certain locations fell within the scope of section 3-104
• holding that a plaintiff’s allegations regarding a city’s failure to provide traffic cones in specified locations fell within the scope of section 3-104, even though the city had placed cones elsewhere in the area
• reversing the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant on the ground that an independent intervening cause was responsible for plaintiff’s injury
• “Once it is said that the ‘causal connection’ may be unbroken, a jury can consider that there may be more than one proximate cause of an injury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).