City of Lincoln v. First National Bank
Nebraska Supreme Court
Ehror from the district court for Lancaster county. Action in the nature of trespass on the case, by a municipal corporation against a landowner, to recover for damages recovered for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian from an open coal-hole in a sidewalk.* See 59 Nebr., 634. Tried below before Frost, J. Judgment for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Hastings, C.
In this case plaintiff filed in the district court for Lancaster county, January 24, 1904, a petition setting out- its incorporation and that of the defendant bank; that the latter, November 1, 1894, and long prior thereto and thereafter, owned lot 13 in block 34 in plaintiff city, and maintained for its own use and benefit a vault under the sidewalk, which was a public sidewalk of the city on one of its principal thoroughfares, with a large opening or coal-hole through the sidewalk, constructed by defendant’s grantors, and maintained by it for its own benefit; that the lid…
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