Townsend v. City of Paola

Opinion by

Simpson, C.:

Mary C. Townsend, the plaintiff in error, filed her petition against the city of Paola, a city of the second class, on the 10th day of February, 1886, in which she demanded a judgment against said city in a large sum, for damages on account of a personal injury she received by falling in a. ditch excavated for the purpose of laying water-*592pipes along one of the streets of said city. She was injured on the night of the 31st day of January, 1886, about the hour of 9 o’clock P. M. Her injuries consisted of a “green-stick fracture” of the smaller ribs; an indentation in the…