O'MEARA v. American States Insurance Company

This case is from the St. Joseph Superior Court, in which the court denied the plaintiff-appellant’s motion for summary judgment and granted the defendant-appellee’s motion for summary judgment, thereby giving rise to this appeal.

The plaintiff-appellant and her husband , are the owners of certain residential real estate which faces upon the St. Joseph River in South Bend, Indiana. Along that part of the property bordering the river, appellant maintained a rock wall which protruded three to four feet above the water’s surface, and to an undisclosed depth below. In early May, 1967, appellant…