Jansen v. City of Atchison
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Atchison District Court. Action by Jansen, to recover damages for personal injuries. His petition alleged that in August 1873, while lawfully, and without any negligence on his part, walking along and over the sidewalk on Commercial street in the city of Atchison, said walk broke through, and precipitated plaintiff into an area under the walk, causing great and permanent injury to his person, etc.
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Error from Atchison District Court. Action by Jansen, to recover damages for personal injuries. His petition alleged that in August 1873, while lawfully, and without any negligence on his part, walking along and over the sidewalk on Commercial street in the city of Atchison, said walk broke through, and precipitated plaintiff into an area under the walk, causing great and permanent injury to his person, etc. Other statements of his petition, the defenses set up by the defendants, and the material facts, sufficiently appear in the opinion, infra. Trial at the June Term 1874 of the district…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
statement of the case. In September 1873, the plaintiff in error, George Jansen, commenced his action against the city of Atchison and A. G. Otis to recover damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars, by reason of personal injuries received plaintiff on August 10th 1873, through defects in a sidewalk of one of the public streets of the city of Atchison. Jansen alleged that said injuries were *379occasioned by defendants’ negligently constructing a sidewalk on Commercial street, and by the said defendants negligently permitting the said defects…
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