Rothenhoefer v. City of St. Louis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• indicating a public entity should not be liable when property is destroyed because it is in fact dangerous to the public
• “[w]hile property may be destroyed because it is dangerous to the public, a destruction of particular property on this ground without necessity, and where the property is not in fact dangerous, may be at the peril of the municipality”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).