Rea v. City of Sioux City
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court.— HoN. Vm. Hutch-iNSON, Judge. ' ActioN to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff in consequence of a fall on a sidewalk in defendant city, occasioned by a defect in suck sidewalk. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence the court sustained defendant’s motion to direct a verdict in its favor, and plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered for defendant in pursuance of this ruling.
1Opinion of the CourtMoClaiN, J.
The allegation of negligence in the petition was that the city had, during the five years preceding the accident, carelessly and wrongfully permitted a sidewalk on the westerly side of Water street, between its intersection with Seventh street and a certain bridge, “to remain out of repair and in an unsafe and dangerous condition, and unfit, for public travel and the use of pedestrians, said sidewalk being composed in part of three twelve-inch plank laid upon the ground without stringers or supports to keep the same from the ground, and leaving a portion of the sidewalk used by the public…
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