Legal Opinion
Dooley v. Town of Sullivan
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided December 2, 1887No. 13,281PublishedCited by 22 opinions
From the Sullivan Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The complaint of the appellant alleges that the appellee caused the sidewalk on one of the public streets of the town to be torn up and an excavation to be made therein; that the excavation was left unguarded; that there were no barriers or signal lights placed about it, and that the plaintiff, without any negligence on his part, fell into> the excavation on the night of the 22d day of September, 1885, and was greatly injured.
The second paragraph of the appellee’s answer avers, in *452substance, that Stephen A. White is the owner of a lot abutting on the street; that he was required by an…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- City of Kokomo v. MahanIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Summers v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Ryan v. CurranIndiana Supreme Court · 1878
- City of Evansville v. WilterIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
- Corporation of Bluffton v. MathewsIndiana Supreme Court · 1883
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Board of Commissioners v. AllmanIndiana Supreme Court · 1895
- Smith v. P. & B. CORP.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1979
- City of East Chicago v. GilbertIndiana Court of Appeals · 1915
- Stockton Automobile Co. v. ConferCalifornia Supreme Court · 1908
- City of Anderson v. EastIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
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