Setter's Admr. v. City of Maysville
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 8 — Action to Recover Damages for tiie Death of Plaintiff’s Intestate. — October 23. APPEAL FROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals.
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Case 8 — Action to Recover Damages for tiie Death of Plaintiff’s Intestate. — October 23. APPEAL FROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. Appellant’s intestate, in July 1900, while on her way from a grocery store on Second street in the city of Maysville, intending to go to a coal yard on the same side of Second street and thence home, was confronted near the place of her injury by a trolley pole, piles of brick, stone, wood and other debris, undergrowth, weeds and bushes on one side, while on the other side was the road bed and track of the Maysville street…
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Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM
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Elizabeth Better was run over and killed by an electric street car whilst walking along the north side of Second street, in the city of Maysville, just outside the track of the railway company, and her administrator in this suit seeks to recover damages for her death against the city of Maysville on the ground that the negligence of the city authorities was the proximate cause of her death. The alleged acts of negligence charged against the city are, in substance, thal Second street is one of the main thoroughfares of the city; that the city…
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