City of Elwood v. Carpenter

Gavin, J. —

The appellee sued to recover damages for injuries received by reason of appellant’s negligently maintaining a street in a dangerous and defective condition.

We are called upon to determine the sufficiency of the special verdict to authorize the judgment rendered.

From the verdict we learn, among other things, that along the south side of north “J” street, in said city, there had been constructed, across an intersecting alley, a plank sidewalk, four feet wide, four and five-eights inches high above the level of the ground, without any approaches on either side, and with a gutter or…