Henkes v. City of Minneapolis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover $5,000 for personal injuries resulting from a fall on an icy sidewalk. Trial before Hooker, J., who ordered a dismissal at the close of the evidence for plaintiff, who appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The trial court was clearly right in dismissing the case on the ground that plaintiff had failed to establish a cause of action. The sum of all the evidence is that it was and for some time had been cold winter weather, and all the sidewalksin the city were covered with ice to a certain extent, so that “if a man didn’t take care, he was liable to slip and fall almost anyplace.” About a week previous to the accident there had been a fire in the building abutting on the sidewalk where plaintiff sustained the injury, during which some water escaped from the hose, and ran upon the sidewalk, which…
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