City of St. Paul v. St. Paul City Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the district court for Ramsey county in favor of plaintiff for $1,123.02, entered pursuant to the findings and order of Brill, J. The defect upon which the action is based was not a defect of construction, but a defect of repair.
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Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the district court for Ramsey county in favor of plaintiff for $1,123.02, entered pursuant to the findings and order of Brill, J. The defect upon which the action is based was not a defect of construction, but a defect of repair. Appellant would be liable therefor at common law in the absence of any ordinance, and is certainly liable under the provisions found in sections 9 and 21 of Ordinance No. 1227. While it may be true that appellant had no right to change the girders, beams, trestle or other permanent parts of a steel bridge, it clearly had not…
1Opinion of the CourtLovely, J.
This action is to recover of defendant the amount of a judgment previously rendered against the city of St. Paul for an injury received by a person on one of the public streets therein, which had been paid, under the claim that the street car company was obligated to indemnify the plaintiff by the terms of one of its ordinances. The case was tried to the court, findings of fact were made, upon which a judgment was ordered in favor of the plaintiff for the amount claimed, judgment was entered, and defendant appeals therefrom.
There is no doubt that the findings of fact are sustained by the…
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- Laredo Electric & Railway Co. v. HamiltonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1900
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