Harris v. City of Des Moines

The defendant-city challenged, by demurrer, the plaintiff’s cause of action, on the primary ground that the patrolling or guarding of a public street, temporarily set aside by the superintendent of public safety for coasting purposes, is a matter involving the exercise of a governmental, or police, power, and for any injury arising therefrom the city is not liable. The trial court sustained the demurrer. It is to this ruling that the appeal is directed.

This is a suit by the administratrix, to recover damages for the death of Harold Harris, a boy about eight years of age, who was killed…