Parmenter v. City of Marion
Supreme Court of Iowa
_Appeal from Cedar Rapids Superior Court. — IIon. T. M. Giberson, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for injuries received "by plaintiff wliile passing along one of tlie streets of defend••ant city. Trial to a jury, verdict and judgment for plaintiff, .and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, J.-
1 This cas.e involves tbe difficult and per-plexing problem of proximate care. It appears that plaintiff, while passing along one of the streets of defendant city, was injured by being struck by a bale of hay that was thrown, out of the second story of a building occupied by one John It. Kheinheimer. The building ;abuts on the street. In front of it is a sidewalk, the outer *299edge of which is 6 feet and 5 inches from the outside wall. Over the sidewalk and projecting out from, a level with the second floor is a platform 15 feet in length and 5 feet wide. The bottom of this platform…
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