Cooper v. Village of Waterloo
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. This action is for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, January 19,1893, and occasioned, as is alleged, by a depressed piece of sidewalk about thirty feet long on the south side of Madison street, in the defendant village, which was about fifteen inches lower than the sidewalk adjoining on the east and west; that this depressed piece was joined to the sidewalk running east by slanting planks about six feet long,…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. This action is for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, January 19,1893, and occasioned, as is alleged, by a depressed piece of sidewalk about thirty feet long on the south side of Madison street, in the defendant village, which was about fifteen inches lower than the sidewalk adjoining on the east and west; that this depressed piece was joined to the sidewalk running east by slanting planks about six feet long, laid lengthwise of the walk, forming an incline, the east end of which was about fifteen inches higher than the west end…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The village charted provided, in effect, that “ whenever a majority of all the owners of real estate lots bordering on one side of any such street or part of street, shall desire to have a sidewalk built or repaired,” application thereof in writing shall be made by them to the board of village trustees, who thereupon “shall make an order specifying the manner the work shall be done, and require the owners of lots fronting on said street to make the improvements asked for, within such time as they shall deem proper; and if the owners of said lots do not make or cause to be made the said…
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