City of Meridian v. Peterson

Mrs. Peterson sued the city of Meridian for damages which she claims to have sustained because of falling through a bridge in one of the city’s streets, and from a judgment in her favor the city has brought the case to this court. .

In the block on Grand avenue, one of the city’s streets, between St. Charles and Luke streets, a thickly populated residential district, there is an open ditch or drain several feet deep between the sidewalk and the traveled way, across which, and not at street intersections, are several small bridges constructed more than twenty years ago by some unknown person or…