Arthur v. City of Charleston
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Action by K. IT. Arthur against the City of Charleston. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, President :
Tire City of Charleston complains of a judgment in favor of E. H. Arthur for the sum of one thousand dollars rendered by the circuit court of Kanawha County the 24th day of April, 1900, on the verdict of a jury.
The plaintiff Arthur was tripped up by a rope stretched across the pavement on the south side of Kanawha street and fastened to a telephone pole for the purpose of holding the wharf boat during a flood in the Kanawha River. He sued the city for the damages occasioned therebjq and after the case had once before been in this Court and remanded for trial recovered the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Gibson v. City of HuntingtonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1893
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- Biggs v. HuntingtonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1889
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- Campbell v. City of ElkinsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1905
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