Hendericks v. City of Council Bluffs
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. H. E. Deemee, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained because of a dangerous obstruction in one of the streets of the city, which was knowingly, negligently, and carelessly permitted to be and remain in said street by the defendant’s officers.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. H. E. Deemee, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained because of a dangerous obstruction in one of the streets of the city, which was knowingly, negligently, and carelessly permitted to be and remain in said street by the defendant’s officers. The defendant answered, admitting that it was a municipal «orpora.tion organized as a city of the first class, and denying •every other allegation in the plaintiff’s petition contained. The case was /tried to a jury. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, C. J.
The case is submitted upon appellant’s abstract, filed October 18, 1893, and an amendment thereto, filed February 6, 1894, and appellee’s abstract, filed February 13, 1894. Appellee’s abstract contains the following denial: “Appellee denies the correctness of appellant’s abstract' of the evidence, and alleges that the same is unfair and incorrect; that the following is a correct abstract of the testimony, so far as it purports' to be an abstract of the testimony of the witnesses referred to, but does not, with appellant’s abstract, contain all the evidence offered and introduced in the trial…
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