Johnson v. City of St. Paul
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the City of St. Paul, from an order of the District Court of Bamsey Count}', Egan, J., made June 1, 1892, denying its motion for a new trial. On March 21, 1891, the plaintiff, Fannie Johnson, was walking on the plank sidewalk along the east side of Sibley street between Norris and Spruce streets in St. Paul. It was eight o’clock in the evening and quite dark.
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Appeal by defendant, the City of St. Paul, from an order of the District Court of Bamsey Count}', Egan, J., made June 1, 1892, denying its motion for a new trial. On March 21, 1891, the plaintiff, Fannie Johnson, was walking on the plank sidewalk along the east side of Sibley street between Norris and Spruce streets in St. Paul. It was eight o’clock in the evening and quite dark. She stepped with her left foot into a bole in the walk and fell, twisting and dislocating the ankle joint. It was “everted and slightly rotated, ligaments were ruptured and scaphoid bone given prominence.” On‘ April…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
According to the complaint herein, the primary c.ause of the injuries said to have been received by plaintiff was the negli*366gence of defendant city in keeping in repair a sidewalk at a particularly described point, which walk she alleges had become rotten, worn-out, broken, full of holes, and dangerous, so that, when she was walking on the same at this particular point, she was tripped by a loose plank, and, stepping into one of the holes, was violently thrown down. It was therefore proper and important for her to show the rotten and worn-out, or general, condition of the walk at and about the…
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