Legal Opinion
City of Louisville v. Louisville Seed Company
Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)
Decided March 8, 1968PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OSBORNE, Judge.
This is a suit by the appellee, Louisville Seed Company, against the City of Louisville for damages. It grows out of the city’s negligence in its failure to install gates in the municipal flood wall system during the flood of March, 1964. The action was tried before a jury and judgment entered upon its verdict in the amount of $81,771.43. The appeal before us is upon this judgment.
The city claims many errors in the trial. It first contends that appellee was contributorily negligent. This contention is based upon the theory that appellee should not have relied upon the…
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