City of Mitchell v. Stevenson

Appellee recovered a judgment of $500.00 against appellant, City of Mitchell, in a trial to the court, without the intervention of a jury. Appellant assigns as error the overruling of its motion for new trial and confines its argument to the specification that the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law.

The evidence most favorable to appellee shows the following facts:

On October 30, 1957, at approximately 10:30 p.m., appellee and her husband visited the home of Nelson Bales at 316 West Oak Street in Mitchell, Indiana. The Bales’ car was parked…