Switzer v. Baker
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — W. S. Ayres, Judge. Plaintiff sues to recover damages for personal injury, and from a judgment in ber favor against both defendants they appeal. The material facts are stated in the opinion.—
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
On October 28, 1913, at the crossing of West Locust and Seventh Streets in the city of Des Moines, the plaintiff was struck and injured by an automobile moving west on Locust, driven by the defendant, Henry G-. Baker. The petition alleges that such injury was occasioned without fault on the plaintiff’s part by the negligence of both Henry G-. Baker and his codefendant, William H. Baker, and that the injuries received by her were many and serious. The petition particularizes the acts and omissions constituting the alleged negligence, as being the failure on defendants’ part to have chains upon…
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