Houseman v. City of Belle Plaine

1. Negligence: evidence. The plaintiff was returning home with a friend, Mrs. Hoover, from lodge, at about eleven o’clock p. m. of May 16, 1902. The walk was on the north side of the street, and that part of it in front of Dodd’s premises was out of repair. It was of bricks, many of which were out of place, and several holes had been dug in it. The particular hole into which plaintiff’s foot slipped as she stepped on a brick next to it was about a foot in diameter and three or four inches deep. The appellant insists that, according to her own testimony, she ought to be adjudged guilty of…