Hodges v. City of Waterloo
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Blachhawk District Court. — IIon. Feaniclin ,0. Platt, Judge. ActioN to recover damages for personal injuries. "When the evidence was all in, .the court, on motion of defendant, directed a verdict, in its favor. From a judgment rendered on such verdict taxing costs to plaintiff, she appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWateRMAN, J.
Plaintiff’s injuries were caused by a fall upon a street in defendant city. The petition charges negligence in two counts. In the first it is alleged that the accident was caused by ice which had been permitted to accumulate upon the sidewalk in a rough and uneven form, and in the second count the charge is made that such *446walk was negligently constructed, in that tbe outer seven feet of tbe same, tbe walk being fourteen feet wide, was sloped too muck down to tbe level of tbe driveway of the street,, tbe place where plaintiff fell being tbe paved crossing of an alley-way. Tbe street .in…
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