Stedman v. Town of Osceola

Spring, J.:

The action is to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to be sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the defective con*221dition of a highway in the defendant. The town of Osceola contains no village or city, has 600 inhabitants, forty-four miles of highways, and two-thirds- of the entire area of the town consists of uncultivated, unproductive land. The highway in question was in a sparsely-settled part of the town and infrequently traveled.

On the 15th of June; 1909, by direction of the town superintendent, this road its entire length was run over by the town road scraper and…