Reed v. City of St. Joseph

This action in damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by plaintiff on June 21, 1923, is based on certain alleged defective conditions of a public thoroughfare and approach to a bridge in defendant city.

The facts show that Lake Avenue and Alabama Street in the city of St. Joseph, Mo., are intersecting public thoroughfares maintained by defendant; that at or near said intersection is a bridge spanning a small creek known as Brown’s Branch. The south approach to said bridge slopes for a distance of about fifteen feet, and is of concrete construction. ’The said slope from the…