Bryant v. City of Chicago

Full title: Eva Bryant, Appellee, v. City of Chicago, Appellant

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Jun 21, 1943

319 Ill. App. 524 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)

Opinion

Gen. No. 42,534. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed June 21, 1943 Rehearing denied July 6, 1943

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS, § 400^_ — sufficiency of notice of personal injury. In action against city to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff when she fell into hole in sidewalk, notice to city of fact of plaintiff's injury sufficiently informed city of place where accident occurred (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, ch. 70, pars. 7, 8; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 107.148, 107.149).

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. DONALD S. McKINLAY, Judge, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in the first division, first district, this court at the December term, 1942.

Barney Hodes, Corporation Counsel, for appellant;

J. Herzl Segal and L. Louis Karton, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel;

Alan Gould and Samuel J. Baskin, for appellee.

Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE MATCHETT.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed June 21, 1943; rehearing denied July 6, 1943.