Hartman v. City of Muscatine
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Gourt. Aotion to recover damages for an injury received by the plaintiff on the ground that the city had been negligent in the construction of a crossing over a street. Trial by jury, judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
Some two or three years prior to the accident the city caused the street to be raised so that there was a slope from the street to the sidewalk. The plaintiff had knowledge of the condition of the street and slope, having passed over it daily for more than a year. The accident occurred in March, about 7 o’clock in the morning. There was a sidewalk on the northerly side of the street for some distance, and when the plaintiff left his home he traveled on such walk, and to the end thereof, when he attempted to cross the street to the southerly side, where there was a sidewalk. In so doing he…
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