Wright v. City of St. Cloud
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the City of St. Cloud, from a judgment of the District Court of Stearns County, D. B. Searle, J., entered February 8, 1893, for $700 and costs. On Sunday morning, February 21, 1892, the plaintiff, Mary A. Wright, went with her husband to the Congregational Church on Fifth Avenue South.
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Appeal by defendant, the City of St. Cloud, from a judgment of the District Court of Stearns County, D. B. Searle, J., entered February 8, 1893, for $700 and costs. On Sunday morning, February 21, 1892, the plaintiff, Mary A. Wright, went with her husband to the Congregational Church on Fifth Avenue South. In returning from church she went with a Mrs. Whipple along the sidewalk on the west side of Fifth Avenue in front of vacant lot three (3) in block forty-one, (41,) where the snow had not been removed from the walk for a considerable time. The travel over it had packed it down in the track.…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This was an action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by tbe alleged negligence of the defendant, in permitting snow and ice to accumulate and remain upon a public sidewalk so as to render it unsafe for travel.
The only question is whether the evidence justified the verdict.
The accident occurred in the latter part of February, in the residence part of the city, about seven squares from its business center. Abutting this part of the sidewalk there was unoccupied property about eighty feet in width. On either side the occupants had kept the sidewalk in good order, but opposite this…
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