Beane v. City of St. Joseph & Brittain Investment Co.

This is a suit in damages for personal injuries against the City of St. Joseph and the Brittain Investment Company, a corporation.

Plaintiff, a man sixty years of age, fell on ice on a sidewalk on the west side of Fifth street about eighty feet south of its intersection with Francis street. The petition alleges that “water from the roof and cornice of the building owned by defendant The Brittain Investment Company on the premises above described be-’ cause of insufficient and defective guttering, drains and downspouts on said building, was permitted to flow upon, along and across the said…