Duvall v. City of New Castle

Citations

• 74 Pa. Super. 573
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 201

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities — Sidewalks — Ice — Contributory negligence — Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action against a municipality to recover damages for injuries sustained in consequence of a fall, induced by an accumulation of ice upon a sidewalk, the case is for the jury and a verdict for the plaintiff will be sustained, where the evidence established that while walking on a sidewalk on the main traveled highway, the plaintiff was injured by a fall from slipping on a ridge or mound of ice, four or five inches high, extending across the sidewalk and caused by defective spouting on a house located at that point, which permitted water to leak or drop on the steps below and flow across the pavement until frozen, and that this condition had existed for ten days or two weeks prior to the accident.</p>