Roy v. City of La Crosse

This action was brought to recover for personal injuries caused by a fall upon one of the sidewalks of the defendant city. The charge of negligence is that the sidewalk was defective in consequence of a fan-shaped ridge of ice formed thereon by water running'from a spout upon an adjoining building; that the formation of ice was several inches in thickness, rough and uneven, and higher on the inside and middle of the walk than on the outside and sloping downward toward the outside; that the ice extended diagonally across the sidewalk and was covered by a light flurry of snow. There is evidence…