Kirkegaard v. City of Sioux Falls

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages from the City of Sioux Falls for personal injuries sustained in a fall upon ice that had formed from great quantities of water flowed upon and around her premises as a result of the appellant flushing a dead end water hydrant. The water department of the City of Sioux Falls on the 21st day of January, 1941, flushed a number of the city’s dead end hydrants. Shortly after the noon hour, the city’s employees flushed a hydrant at Fifth Street and Lewis Avenue. A two and one-half inch stream of water was turned on full force. The water flowed south…