Jeffers v. City of Sioux City

The plaintiff claims damages by reason of a personal injury resulting from a fall upon one of the public streets of the city of Sioux City. The street in question is not surfaced and at the point of the accident the level of the street is five or six feet lower than the premises upon which plaintiff’s dwelling house is situated. In the year 1933 the city constructed wooden steps from the level of the sidewalk in front of the plaintiff’s property down to the level of the street. On March 4, 1935, the plaintiff, in using said steps in going to and returning from a mailbox, fell from near the…