Stanke v. City of St. Paul
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $1,150 for personal injuries suffered by plaintiff and expenses incurred for medical attendance. When the plaintiff rested the defendant requested the court, Kelly, J., to direct a verdict for the defendant. The motion was granted. From an order denying his motion for a new trial plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The question which counsel for appellant (plaintiff) argues and attempts to have determined is whether a municipality can be held in damages on account of injuries received by a person who slips and falls upon a smooth sheet of ice which has formed upon one of its sidewalks, such formation having been caused by a negligent failure of the municipality to keep a street gutter or waterway unobstructed, so that it would carry off the accumulated waters, the result of the obstruction being that such waters overflowed the walk, and then became frozen and slippery; the gravamen of the charge being,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Henkes v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Billings v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Hughes v. City of LawrenceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Chamberlain v. City of OshkoshWisconsin Supreme Court · 1893
- Pinkham v. TopsfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Nichols v. Village of BuhlSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
- Mesberg v. City of DuluthSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1934
- Kopveiler v. Northern Pacific Railway CompanySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1968
- Bury v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1960
- Teske v. Steele CountySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1969
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