Easton v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 26 Pa. Super. 517
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 345

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Defect in sidewalk — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>Where a woman in broad daylight undertakes to cross a street diagonally at a place not provided as a crossing for pedestrians, and when near the edge of the sidewalk steps into a hole made by the displacement of two and one-half bricks by the roots of a tree standing nine inches away on the extreme edge of the sidewalk, and it appears that she must have seen the hole if she had looked, she is guilty of contributory negligence and cannot recover from the city for the injuries sustained.</p>