Leroy v. City of Springfield

Citations

• 81 Ill. 114

Syllabus

<p>1. Limitation—statute applies in favor of municipal corporations. A municipal corporation may avail itself of the Statute of Limitations of two years, in a suit by a private citizen to recover damages for a personal injury.</p> <p>2. Same—statute construed. Section 15 of the limitation law (R. S. 1874) applies only to causes of action on unwritten contracts, express or implied, to awards, to injuries to real or personal property, and to actions to recover possession of personal property or damages for its detention or conversion, and to all civil actions not otherwise provided for. An action for a personal injury being provided for by section 14, is not affected by section 15.</p> <p>3. Same—when cause of action accrues. In the case of personal injury caused by a defective sidewalk, the cause of action accrues at the time the injury is done, and the Statute of Limitations begins to run from that day.</p>