Rice v. City of Council Bluffs

The case made by plaintiff is substantially as follows: The defendant city had caused Third street, between Story street and Fifth avenue, to be graded down in part, making a cut some three or four feet deep near the middle of the driveway, and left the same without'barricade or ¿guard. In the darkness of evening the plaintiff, a lady of seventy-one years of age, in company with one or two other persons, was driving through the city, and, having no notice of the grading,, undertook to pass along this part of Third street, with the result that her horse and carriage fell into the cut. In the…