Williams v. City of St. Joseph

— The object of this action is to recover damages against the defendant city for injuries plaintiff, a boy over twelve years of age, received as the result of having fallen into an excavation on Twenty-second street. The evidence showed that that part of the street where plaintiff fell into the excavation is mostly unimproved, there being no sidewalks, and no paving. The excavation in question extends into the street about ten feet. Persons passing along the street used any part of the same that was convenient, but at the point in question there was a path used on the west side by pedestrians…