Lyon v. City of Grand Rapids
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. Action for a personal injury attributed to failure of defendant to keep one of its sidewalks in a reasonably safe condition for public travel.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. Action for a personal injury attributed to failure of defendant to keep one of its sidewalks in a reasonably safe condition for public travel. The complaint, aside from the formal allegations, sets.forth the following: March 16, 1901, while plaintiff in the exercise of ordinary care was traveling on the sidewalk in such city in front of lot 10, and near the line between that and lot 11, block 6, McOomb’s addition to ' said city, she stepped into a hole in such walk, formed by one of the twelve-inch…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The appeal was not taken within the time provided by secs. 925 — 58 to 925 — 60, Stats. 1898, which were the law of the appellant city and governed the subject, except as modified by ch. 68, Laws of 1901. The first of such sections is to the effect that any claim or demand presented to the city council for allowance, and not acted upon within sixty days thereafter, shall be deemed disallowed; the next is to the effect that disallowance by the common council of any such claim, actual or constructive, shall preclude any action to enforce the same in the absence of an appeal from such…
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