City of Michigan v. Werner
Indiana Supreme Court
From St. Joseph Circuit Court; Walter A. Funk, Judge. Action by William Werner against the City of Michigan City. From a judgment for plaintiff, the défendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLairy, C. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in an action for damages occasioned by the negligence of appellant city.
The first question presented for consideration arose upon the action of the court in overruling the demurrer to the complaint. It appears from the complaint that appellant city maintained a bridge within its limits extending across the city harbor and connecting the north end of Franklin street with the public park which lay along the shore of Lake Michigan. This bridge, which is of the jack-knife type, was so constructed that it could be raised by electric machinery from a horizontal to…
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- City of Kokomo v. LoyIndiana Supreme Court · 1916
- Stoy v. Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1903
- Pennsylvania Co. v. McCaffreyIndiana Supreme Court · 1894
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