Buesching v. St. Louis Gaslight Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Court of Appeals. - Upon tbe testimony adduced for tbe plaintiff, & prima facie case of negligence on tbe part of defendant was made out.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Court of Appeals. - Upon tbe testimony adduced for tbe plaintiff, & prima facie case of negligence on tbe part of defendant was made out. It showed a careless and dangerous pitfall constructed by defendant in the very heart and center of a great city; that defendant had failed to erect any railing or guard to protect passengers from falling therein, where so many were liable to fall; that plaintiff’s husband had been caught in the. trap of defendant, and was found dead in it under circumstances necessarily justifying the inference that the fatal disaster could never…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, J.
This was an action 'against the St. Louis Gaslight Company, as owner, and one Barnes, the tenant in possession of a certain building on Pine street, in the city of St. Louis, for negligence in not guarding the entrance to an area or opening in front of said building, and abutting upon the sidewalk, into which it is alleged the plaintiff’s husband fell on the night of January 22nd, 1876, and was thereby killed. /
The building in question is located on the north side *225-of Pine street and on the west side of and adjoining an alley which runs north and south through the block lying between Second…
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