City of Michigan City v. Ballance

Berkshire. J.

The appellee was the plaintiff, and the appellant the defendant, in the court below.

The complaint is in two paragraphs, not materially different, and charges negligence upon the appellant in allowing a certain sidewalk along one of its streets to get out of repair, because of which the appellee was seriously injured in her person, greatly to her damage.

To the complaint the appellant filed an answer in general denial.

*335The cause was submitted to the jury, and a verdict returned for the appellee in the sum of $700.

The appellant moved the court for a new trial, which motion the court…