Clifton v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 217 Pa. 102
• 66 A. 159
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 662

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Defective street — Dirt road.</p> <p>When an accident happens by reason of some slight defect in a street, from which danger is not reasonably to be anticipated, the municipality is not chargeable with négligence. The duty which the law imposes upon a municipality, is only to exercise ordinary care to see that the highway is safe for travelers.</p> <p>A city is not liable for personal injuries sustained by a woman in stepping into a rut in a dirt road while she was alighting from a street car, where it appears that the rut in question was such as was ordinarily made by wagons, was only a few inches deep, and extended along the edge of Belgian blocks which paved a space of a width of about one foot outside the rail of the street railway.</p>