Lundy v. City of Sedalia

This is an action for damages for an injury which plaintiff claims to have received while passing along a sidewalk in a resident district of the city of Sedalia. The injury was caused by a dead limb falling from a maple tree which grew between the curb and sidewalk in front of resident property. The injury occurred on the 14th day of September, 1909', and while the tree was in foliage. The maple tree in question was somewhat decayed on its west side, and had a dead limb about eleven inches in diameter and from four to six feet long which extended in an angling position somewhat up*219ward, over…