Categories: Illinois Appellate Court Opinions

JENSEN v. CITY OF CHICAGO, 306 Ill. App. 265 (1940)

28 N.E.2d 311

Helen Jensen, Appellant, v. City of Chicago, Appellee.

Gen. No. 41,208. (Abstract of Decision.)Appellate Court of Illinois, First District.
Opinion filed June 19, 1940

DAMAGES, § 405[*] — permanent arm injury, inadequacy of verdict. In action for personal injuries sustained by 61-year-old woman as result of fall caused by defective sidewalk, where defendant city offered no

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defense as to the accident nor to plaintiff’s injuries, verdict for $350 was insufficient warranting a new trial, where plaintiff’s arm was broken and suffered permanent limitation of motion, she was strapped in bed for 17 days, incapacitated for 66 days, the arm was permanently shortened, she endured pain and suffering while the arm was in a traction apparatus and subsequently in a sling, and medical expenses alone totaled $300.

[*] See Callaghan’s Illinois Digest, same topic and sectionnumber.

Appeal from Superior Court of Cook county; Hon. JOSEPH SABATH, presiding.

Reversed and remanded. Heard in third division, first district, this court at April term, 1940.

V. Russell Donaghy, for appellant;

David A. Schallman and Joseph P. Power, of counsel;

Barnet Hodes, Corporation Counsel, for appellee;

Alexander J. Resa, L. Louis Karton and Louis H. Geiman, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel.

Opinion by JUSTICE HEBEL.

“Not to be published In full.” Opinion filed June 19, 1940.

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