Town of Knightstown v. Musgrove
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Henry Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
Lucinda Musgrove sued the town of Knightstown to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her on the 1st day of July, 1886, without any fault on her part, while riding along a public street in the above mentioned town, in which there was a dangerous unguarded obstruction.
There was a trial by jury and a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for seven hundred dollars.
*122The evidence tended to show that two or more loads of gravel had been hauled upon the street, by the direction of the authorities, late in the evening of the day on which the accident happened, and…
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