Calder v. City of Walla Walla

Citations

• 6 Wash. 377
• 33 P. 1054
• 1893 Wash. LEXIS 304

Syllabus

<p>NEGLIGENCE — ICY SIDEWALKS — LIABILITY OF CITY.</p> <p>A city is not liable for damages for injuries received from falling on an icy sidewalk if the ice is not so rough and uneven, or so rounded up, or at such an incline as to make it an obstruction and to cause it to be unsafe for travel with the exercise of due care.</p> <p>Where there is testimony tending to show that an accident was due to the slipperiness and smoothness caused by the ice upon a walk, it is error for the court to refuse to instruct the Jury that “mere slipperiness of the sidewalk, occasioned by ice or snow, not being accumulated so as to cause an obstruction, is not ordinarily such a defect as will make the city liable for damages occasioned thereby.”</p>