Gardner v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 221 Pa. 247
• 70 A. 721
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 472

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipality—Sidewalk—Slippery pavement — Nonsuit.</p> <p>In an action against a city to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by a fall on an icy pavement a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the plaintiff’s heel was caught and his foot turned in a circular or curved rut, and that the rut had apparently been made by a push cart in soft snow or slush,- later frozen hard, and then covered with an inch or two of fresh snow that had fallen the same morning.</p>