Delacy v. City of Mason City

— On the afternoon of March 3, 1947, plaintiff, Mrs. Delacy, age fifty-eight, suffered a broken hip when she fell on an accumulation of ice on a sidewalk at the southeast corner of the intersection of Ninth Street Northwest and Washington Avenue in Mason City. Trial resulted in verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1026.50 from which defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff was walking west on the sidewalk along the south side of Ninth Street and intended to cross Washington Avenue which runs north and south. Along the east curb of Washington there was a ridge of ice “anyway a foot high” formed…