City & County of Denver v. Forster

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, brings error to review a judgment of $3,000 entered in favor of the defendant in error’s intestate. The action was for damages resulting from alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in maintaining- its streets, and particularly that part of 16th street at the intersection of Court place.

The complaint alleged that on March 17, 1927, the plaintiff alighted from a street car at the intersection mentioned, and immediately tripped upon a certain oval-shaped block of iron or steel placed by the defendant in the open and traveled part of 16th street,…