Lundy v. City of Ames

The sidewalk in question runs north and south on the west side of one of the principal resident streets of appel-lee city. It appears that at one time the city fixed the grade for a sidewalk in front of a certain lot in said street, and the owner of said lot constructed a sidewalk in front of the same at the established grade. This grade was higher than that of the adja cent lot, and tbe sidewalk, which was constructed of brick, was made on a slope, at a drop of twenty-sis feet in one hundred. The evidence shows that the ordinary slope in a sidewalk is a drop of seven feet in one hundred. The…