Belles v. City of Tacoma

Citations

• 79 Wash. 200
• 140 P. 324

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Public Buildings — Maintenance—Degree or Care — Negligence. Under tbe rule that a city owes only reasonable care in keeping buildings in repair, it is not negligence for a city to permit tbe use of a floor in a municipal dock after tbe center of one of tbe boards became worn down a quarter of an inch below tbe common level.</p> <p>Same — Defects—Notice. A city is not liable for injuries sustained by one wbo slipped and fell upon tbe floor of a municipal dock, one board of wbicb had worn faster than tbe others, until it was slightly grooved! and about a quarter of an inch below tbe corn-men level, where there was no evidence that the city had notice of the defect or that, of numerous persons passing over the floor daily, any one had previously slipped or fallen thereon.</p>