Leonard v. City of Muscatine

Appellant, Emma J. Leonard, brought this action against the City of Muscatine on account of injuries from a fall upon a sidewalk. Trial to a jury resulted in verdict and judgment in favor of defendant. Hence this appeal.

Appellant’s petition recited that she stepped upon a portion of sidewalk which was raised and out of alignment with the rest of said sidewalk, and which was covered with snow and ice and which caused her to slip and fall, and that each of said conditions had existed for such time that the city should have discovered and remedied the same. She charged the city was negligent:…