City of Friend v. Burleigh

Ragan, C.

On the night of December 4, 1890, David B. Burleigh, while on hit way to his residence in the city of Friend, *675stepped or fell off a sidewalk in said city, at a point Avhere the walk crossed a ravine some ten feet deep and fifty feet wide, receiving certain injuries from such fall from which he subsequently died. In the district court of Saline county his executor brought this suit against the said city of Friend to recoArer the pecuniary damages which, he alleged, the deceased’s widow and next of kin had sustained by his death; the basis of the executor’s action being that the…