Town of Gosport v. Evans

The town of Gosport prosecutes this appeal from a judgment rendered by the Owen Circuit Court in favor of Lydia E. Evans against the appellant for one thousand dollars, that being the amount awarded the plaintiff by a jury in an action for damages for injuries sustained from a fall upon an alleged defective and dangerous sidewalk.

The argument for a reversal of the judgment is predicated ■mainly upon two propositions. It is contended:

1. That there was no evidence which tended to show such •a defect in the sidewalk at the place where the plaintiff fell as rendered the town liable to the…