Owen v. City of Fort Dodge
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court.— Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff, by reason of a defective sidewalk, or crossing, in tbe defendant city. There was a trial to a jury, verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
On the evening of the fourteenth day of October, 1892, the plaintiff, while attempting to pass over a plank street crossing, in the defendant city, stepped between the boards there laid, and received the injuries of which she complains. She alleged that the crossing on which she was injured was at the corner of Cass and Locust streets, being the southeast corner of block 11, in Morrison and Huncombe’s *283addition to the city, at the southwest corner of of Cass, at its intersection with Locust street, and on the north side of Locust street; that the crossing, as originally constructed, was…
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