Tarras v. City of Winona
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Winona county, Snow, J., denying its motion for a new trial after a verdict for $3,000 in favor of plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
Leading from the business center of Winona, out into the country, is a public street or road. As .it passes through the outskirts of the city it extends for a distance of 2,650 feet across a low tract of land, and this portion of the road is upon an embankment seven feet high and 33 feet wide at the top. Each side of the embankment is protected by a stone riprap or sloping wall, which has a slope of three feet inward in a height of seven feet. A stream of water, diverted from its natural channel, flows along one side of the road in a ditch at the foot of the riprap. The road, as laid out, is…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McHugh v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
3Cited by5 opinions
- Briglia v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
- Neidhardt v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1910
- Grant v. City of BrainerdSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
- Watson v. City of DuluthSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1915
- Tarras v. City of WinonaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1899