Connor v. Salt Lake City
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County. — Eon. 8. W. Stewart, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in permitting the obstruction of one of the city’s streets. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant appealed. Defendant’s challenge to the jury should have been sustained.
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Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County. — Eon. 8. W. Stewart, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in permitting the obstruction of one of the city’s streets. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant appealed. Defendant’s challenge to the jury should have been sustained. The jury offered in this particular case was not drawn for the department of the court in which it sat. On the contrary, it was drawn for the district court generally without reference to the particular…
1Opinion of the CourtBartch, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant *256in permitting a portion of a lath, and wire fence to remain upon and obstruct the sidewalk on one of the city’s streets. From the evidence it appears that on the night of January 15, 1902, the plaintiff, while walking upon the sidewalk on the west side of First West street, between Seventh and Eighth South streets, in company with others, came in contact with a portion of a lath and wire fence lying upon the walk, and that, the fence having caught…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Owen v. City of Fort DodgeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896
- City of Lincoln v. O'BrienNebraska Supreme Court · 1898
- Harder v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- People v. Wong BinCalifornia Supreme Court · 1903
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- Boyd v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1922
- Barribeau v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1907
- State v. McHenrySupreme Court of Iowa · 1929
- Berger v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1920
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