Stokes v. City of Sac City
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Sac District Court. — Hon. M. E. Hutchinson, Judge. Action for damages based upon fright to a horse driven by plaintiff, occasioned by the presence of an alleged nuisance on the street of defendant. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWithrow, J.
I. This action is to recover damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiff by reason of a horse she was driving becoming frightened at a wagon or cage, in which was. kept for view, upon the payment of an admission fee, an animal which was a freak. The wagon, on which rested or was built the house or cage in which the animal was kept, was permitted by the officers of the defendant city to be located at a place on and within a public street on the day a circus was in Sac City. The case has once before been in this court, the opinion being reported in 151 Iowa, 10. It was reversed because of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Fishburn v. Burlington & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Stearns v. Ontario Spinning Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Frazee v. City of Cedar RapidsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911
- Armbright ex rel. Armbright v. ZionSupreme Court of Iowa · 1899
- Stokes v. City of Sac CitySupreme Court of Iowa · 1911
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- Smith v. PineSupreme Court of Iowa · 1943
- Leinen v. BoettgerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1950
- Harris v. City of Des MoinesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1926
- Gray v. City of Des MoinesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1936
- Johnson v. Plymouth Gypsum Plaster Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1916
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