Allied Mutuals Liability Insurance v. Interstate Cork Co.

How courts have described this case

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• city was liable when a pedestrian fell after stepping on the broken cap of a water meter on a city sidewalk, because the cap had been broken for at least a week and “the city was negligent in not discovering and repairing it”
• “It is very common, in stating the rule, to say that it is the duty of a municipal corporation to keep its streets and sidewalks in a reasonably safe condition, so that persons can pass along them in the ordinary methods of travel in safety.”
• “The rule of duty incumbent upon a municipality as to both streets used by vehicles and sidewalks used by pedestrians is to use ordinary care to keep them in a reasonably safe condition for travel in the ordinary modes, both by day and by night.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).