Lindholm v. City of St. Paul
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff brought this action in the court of common pleas for Ramsey county to recover damages for injuries occasioned by the overturning of his buggy as he was driving-through Seventh street in the City of St. Paul, at a place where that street crosses a deep ravine upon a high embankment, made by the city for the purpose of carrying the street across the ravine.
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The plaintiff brought this action in the court of common pleas for Ramsey county to recover damages for injuries occasioned by the overturning of his buggy as he was driving-through Seventh street in the City of St. Paul, at a place where that street crosses a deep ravine upon a high embankment, made by the city for the purpose of carrying the street across the ravine. Meeting a loaded wagon at a narrow point in the street, the plaintiff turned out so as to drive near the edge of the embankment, which, being in a defective condition, gave way and precipitated the ■ plaintiff, with his horse…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Berry, J.
The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for injuries occasioned to his person and *247property by the alleged negligent failure of defendant to keep in repair a public street called Seventh street. Ch. 26, Sp. Laws 1868, (defendant’s' charter,) in section 1, sub-chapter 7, enacts that “ the common council shall have the care, supervision and control of all public highways, bridges, streets, * * * within the limits of said city, and shall cause all streets, which may have been opened and graded to be kept open and in repair.”
The evidence in this case tended to…
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- Requa v. . the City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Dewey v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1867
- Shartle v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871
- Cleveland v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872
- Allis v. DaySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1869
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