Crocker v. Schureman
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. It was error to permit sect. 2 of chap. 24 of the Revised Ordinances to be read in evidence. — Henry v. Sprague, 11 R. I. 456; Kirby v. Boyton, 14 Gray, 249. Evidence of the custom of street-sprinklers not to visit their stop-boxes and standpipes after the sprinkling season had closed was improperly excluded. — Walsh v. Transfer Go., 52 Mo. 438 ; 2 Greenl. on Ev., sects: 248-252. The ordinance was admissible as evidence. — Jetter v.…
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. It was error to permit sect. 2 of chap. 24 of the Revised Ordinances to be read in evidence. — Henry v. Sprague, 11 R. I. 456; Kirby v. Boyton, 14 Gray, 249. Evidence of the custom of street-sprinklers not to visit their stop-boxes and standpipes after the sprinkling season had closed was improperly excluded. — Walsh v. Transfer Go., 52 Mo. 438 ; 2 Greenl. on Ev., sects: 248-252. The ordinance was admissible as evidence. — Jetter v. Railroad Go., 2 Keyes, 154; City of Providence v. Glapp, 17 How. 161; Chicago v. Robbins, 2 Black, 418. Schweickhardt v. St.…
1Opinion of the CourtHayden, J.
The plaintiff sued the present appellants, and also the City of St. Louis, to recover damages for an injury resulting from his falling upon the ice which had formed near a crossing on the street in that city. This ice, it was alleged, was produced by the freezing of water which, through the carelessness of the appellants, who, as street-sprinklers, used a waterspout in the neighborhood, had been allowed to escape and *359remain upon the crossing until it froze and became dangerous. It was charged that the city, as well as the appellants, for a long time permitted the ice to remain in this…
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