Brown v. City of St. Joseph

Suit for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by a fall caused by a defective crosswalk in one of the public streets of appellant city. Respondent was returning home from church between 9:30 and 10 o’clock in the evening of March 27, 1913. It was dark and the street was not illuminated. Plaving alighted from a street car at the intersection of Thirty-third and Seneca streets, respondent started west on the crosswalk over Thirty-third street and on the north side of Seneca. This crosswalk was made of large boards laid lengthwise of the crossing- and nailed to stringers thereunder.…