Turner v. City of Winterset

On the west side of Block 4, West Addition to the defendant city, was a cement sidewalk. Defendant had constructed a brick crossing across an alley in the center of the block, joining the cement sidewalk at either end thereof. A sanitary sewer was constructed along this alley, and this brick alley-crossing was torn up, for the purpose of construction. It was replaced in 1926, and again repaired in the fall of 1927, and was 16% feet long and 4 feet wide.

Plaintiff claims, — and there is some evidence to support it, —that this alley-crossing was lower than the ground on either side of it; that,…