Hollenbeck v. City of Marshalltown
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Marshall District Court. This is an action to recover for a personal injury which, it is alleged, was received by plaintiff by reason of a fall upon a defective sidewalk. There was a trial by jury, and a ver-diet and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
I. The sidewalk where the injury was re*22ceived was upon one of tbe principal streets of the city. If 1. poembk specfaf'vor- ' diet: avoided. by new trial, was constructed by placing two stringers lengthwise of the street, with two inch planks nailed . across the stringers. Ike walk was some tour teet in width. On the evening of the twenty-first of April, 1880, and after night-fall, the plaintiff and another woman were going along the walk, and the other woman stepped upon a loose plank in the. walk and tipped it up, and the plaintiff came in contact with the plank, or stepped into the opening,…
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