Huston v. City of Council Bluffs
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. A. B. • Thornell, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for personal injuries resulting to plaintiff through a fall on one of the streets of the defendant city. Trial to a jury, vefdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. A. B. • Thornell, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for personal injuries resulting to plaintiff through a fall on one of the streets of the defendant city. Trial to a jury, vefdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Where, although the accumulation of ice or snow has been from purely natural causes, it remains upon the sidewalk in a rounded, uneven or sloping form, so as to increase the danger of accident and create a condition entirely distinct from mere slipperiness by reason of being wet or covered by ice and snow,…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
*361 *34Appellee, while passing along and over a sidewalk on the north side of Washington *35avenue, a much-frequented street in the defendant city, slipped and fell upon the pavement, which was covered with ice and snow, and sustained a severe and complicated fracture of the arm and elbow. He brought this action for damages, alleging that the defendant was negligent in this: “That many days prior to the twenty-fourth day of February, 1894, occurred a fall of snow, which was suffered by the defendant corporation to lie as it fell upon said sidewalk. Later the weather became warm, and the snow,…
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- Cook v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1869
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