Connolly v. City of Spokane

Citations

• 70 Wash. 160
• 126 P. 407
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1021

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Claims—Notice of Injury — Statutory Provisions. Where a city ordinance provided that claims for personal injuries by reason of the city’s negligence must be presented within thirty days, and that if the injury was caused by the existence of snow or ice or by reason of such place being out of repair, unsafe, or obstructed, the first provision relates to continuous negligence which the city could have provided against, and the latter provision refers only to temporary and quickly changing conditions; and hence thirty days is allowed for notice of an injury by reason of trapdoors being left partially open in a place where pedestrians “usually and continuously passed to and fro and over and in so passing walked continuously over and across said doors.”</p> <p>Same — Streets—Injury to Pedestrians — Trapdoors. A city is liable for injuries received by a pedestrian by reason of partially open trapdoors, maintained in a sidewalk where persons were continuously passing over them, and which were either not in good repair, or which were opened without warning or guarding the place.</p>