Beard v. Guild
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. W. G. Thompson, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for injuries received by plaintiff in being thrown from a hack. Defense, a general denial. Trial to jury, verdict, and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
*4771 *476Appellant is engaged in the business of running hacks to and from the town of Mt. Vernon, to the *477depot of the Chicago & Northwestern Bailroad Company. On the thirtieth day of August, 1895, plaintiff, who- was carrying a young babe, took passage in one of appellant’s vehicles at the railway depot, to be driven to- he-r home, in the town of Mt. Vernon. While driving along one of the streets of that town, which had been recently macadamized with broken stone, that had been so- laid as to make the center of the street from eighteen inches to two feet higher than the sides, defendant attempted to…
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- Jennings v. Town of AlbionWisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
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