Opinion

City of Aurora v. Brown

  • 12 Ill. App. 122
  • 1882 Ill. App. LEXIS 165
Court
Appellate Court of Illinois
Filed
Feb 9, 1883
Status
Published
Author
Pillsbury
On the bench
Lacey, Pillsbury
Cited by
11 cases

The opinion

Pillsbury, P. J. I concur in the judgment, but dissent from the proposition that the evidence that others had slipped upon the walk was admissible.

It seems to me that the city would have the same right to show that their slipping was in consequence of their carelessness, as it has to defend this suit upon the ground the plaintiff was negligent.

Such evidence tends to raise too many collateral issues to be determined in one case, where no good reason can exist for it, as the condition of the walk could be easily shown by direct evidence.

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