Grant v. City of Stillwater
Supreme Court of Minnesota
.Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Washington county, to recover damages for injuries to a horse and cutter alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in leaving a street in an obstructed and dangerous condition. At the trial before McOluer, J., the plain-tiff had a verdict, and defendant appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The evidence tended to show that the owner of a lot abutting on Main street, opposite the Omaha depot, in Stillwater, being about to excavate a cellar or cave on his property, obtained a license from the city council to temporarily deposit the rock and dirt upon the street in front of his lot. The pile which he deposited was some eight or ten feet high, and extended out nearly to the centre of the street, leaving as a way for travel the other half of the street, some twenty-five feet in width between this pile of rock and the railroad depot. This pile had been there about two weeks, when, on…
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