Devlin v. Baldwin Township

Citations

• 260 Pa. 179
• 103 A. 557
• 1918 Pa. LEXIS 489

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—First class townships — Sidewalks— Defects — Pedestrian—Fall-—Safer route — Contributory negligence - —Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action by a pedestrian against a township of the first class to recover for personal injuries sustained in a fall occasioned by admitted defects in a sidewalk, the question of plaintiff’s contributory negligence was for the jury and a verdict and judgment for plaintiff ill be sustained where it appeared that the plaintiff was a school teacher, that the boardwalk on which she fell was the route usually used to and from school where she taught, and althou h there was a safer route, there was testimony that she could not reach it on account of the mud.</p>