Nance v. Falls City

This action was brought in the district court of Richardson county by the plaintiff as administrator of George I. *86Nance, deceased, to recover from the defendant for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff's intestaie. It appears from the record that the defendant, in the year 1874, had excavated a pit on Seventh street, “at a point where there is a spring furnishing at all times sufficient water to keep said pit full and running over;'' that in the year 1877 a public school house was erected near said pit, and the scholars were in the habit of assembling at this pit or spring; that in…