Wheeler v. City of Fort Dodge
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court.— Hon. J. It. Whitaker, Judge. The opinion states the case.—
1Opinion of the Court
Weaver, J.—
The petition alleges that, with the consent and by the order and authority of the defendant city, one of its principal streets was on July 4, 1903, obstructed by a wire stretched from the roof of the courthouse bordering upon said street and drawn across the traveled street sto a post or fastening near the ground on the opposite side of said street. It is further alleged that said wire was so stretched and prepared to facilitate the purpose of a female acrobat or performer of dangerous feats to slide down said wire from the courthouse roof to the ground below while “ hanging by her…
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