Ray v. City of St. Paul

The substance of the complaint is that the city deposited, and permitted others, in violation of its own ordinances, to deposit garbage, snow, ice, and other refuse material in the Mississippi river, close to and adjoining the end of Sibley street, a public graded street of the city, which terminates at the river, so that the deposit appeared to be a prolongation of the street, and a part thereof, but which was dangerous to any person stepping thereon, and that plaintiff, without any negligence on his part, supposing said deposit to be a part of Sibley street, stepped upon it, and, by reason…