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Salmon v. Town of Trenton

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 2, 1886PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court, Hon. G. IX Burgess, Judge. Statement of case by the court. The petition in this case is -substantially the same as. the petition in the case of Yocum v. Town of Trenton, 20 Mo. App. 498. The damages, for-the recovery of which this action is brought, are damages alleged to have been caused to the female plaintiff on account of the unsafe condition of the sidewalk on the west side of Oak street, a public street in said town.

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Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court, Hon. G. IX Burgess, Judge. Statement of case by the court. The petition in this case is -substantially the same as. the petition in the case of Yocum v. Town of Trenton, 20 Mo. App. 498. The damages, for-the recovery of which this action is brought, are damages alleged to have been caused to the female plaintiff on account of the unsafe condition of the sidewalk on the west side of Oak street, a public street in said town. The unsafe condition of the sidewalk is alleged to have consisted of this, “that at said time, and before,, a large number of the planks…

1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.

— The questions in this case are as to the action of the court in giving the instructions numbered two and four for the plaintiffs.

The facts of the case of Yocum v. Town of Trenton (20 Mo. App. 498), are substantially -the same as the facts of this case. An instruction identically the same as instruction number two, given for the plain*185tiffs in this case, was given in that case. The objections made by the defendant here on account of the giving of the instructions, were made in that case. For the reasons given in that case, we hold that the defendant’s objections are not well made.

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