Dorsett v. City of Greencastle

The appellant sued the city for personal injuries sustained in falling from the lot of another into a street newly but properly graded to the depth of six *39feet below the surface of the lot. The alleged negligence of the city is in the failure of its contractor to put a barrier along the lot’s line or to maintain a light or other warning of danger. It is alleged, however, that a plank sidewalk, formerly maintained in the line of the street, had been placed upon its edge'on the lot, at the side of the street excavation, and at an -angle of forty-five degrees, slanting toward the street, and,…