Carlon v. City Savings Bank

Duffie, C.

The petition in this case charges that the defendant was the owner of a certain lot in the city of Omaha, and that her husband had rented the premises and was in possession of same as a tenant. It further charges that there was a cistern on the lot, located between the dwelling-house and an outhouse; that a board sidewalk extending from the rear of the dwelling to the outhouse covered the cistern; that the existence of the cistern was unknown to the plaintiff until some ‘time in March, 1903; that she immediately notified the hank, and it caused the cistern to be filled with frozen…