Cox v. City of Des Moines

The sufficiency of the petition in this case was before us upon a former appeal. See Cox v. City of Des Moines, 233 Iowa 272, 273, 7 N. W. 2d 32, 33. There, in our summary of the pleadings, we stated:

‘•‘The petition charges in substance that in one of appellee’s parks there is a building leased by it to various organizations for the holding of meetings and social gatherings. Along this building is a sidewalk maintained by appellee. On the 17th day of May 1941, about midnight, appellant was leaving a party held in the building, by way of this sidewalk. While so doing he inadvertently stepped…