City of Denver v. Baldasari

The failure of the city of Denver to maintain in a reason*158ably safe condition for the purposes of public travel the Sixteenth street viaduct, occasioned the accident which is the subject-matter of the present suit. There is no controversy respecting the character of the street, and it is conceded that the viaduct was lawfully constructed by the city and maintained as a part of the highway. It ran over the Platte river and over the tracks with which the bottoms bordering on that river are filled. This with others furnished practically the only safe mode of crossing between Denver and Highlands…