Palmer v. City of Waterloo

i. municipal sidewalk descriptión of place: amendment. Owing to an alleged defect in a sidewalk of the defendant city the plaintiff, on February 24, 1905, slipped and fell, suffering serious injury therefrom. Action was begun May 2d of the same year; the petition describing the location of the occurrence complained of as on “ the south side of x * Franklin street near the corner of said Franklin street and Oak avenue, in front of lot 2, block 5, of the original plat of east Waterloo, the same being located in defendant city.” After nearly all of the evidence in plaintiff’s behalf had been…