Elzig v. Bales
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court.— Hon. J. B. Whitaker, Judge. Actions for damages resulted in a verdict for plaintiff. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
1. Highways: obstruction liabilty for injury. As plaintiff was driving along the highway, his team shied from a paper in the way, and one of them went into a ditch about six feet from the traveled road and some eighteen feet from the fence. The ° horses floundered, and in some manner plaintiff caught his foot in the wheel, and his leg and back were strained. This ditch had been excavated for tiling about two or three feet deep at that place, with dirt on both sides, though most of it had been thrown toward the fence. The defendant insists that the negligence in leaving the ditch unfilled was…
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