Colorado Court of Appeals April 15, 1900, No. 1811 (Foster v. City of Greeley)

Thomson, J.

The complaint alleged that the defendant, the city of Greeley, a municipal corporation, undertook the relaying of a drain on one of its streets; that in the prosecution of the work it dug a trench along the street about three feet wide and six feet deep for the reception of the new tiling; that the plaintiff was employed in the work as a day laborer by the defendant, and was placed by