Ingram v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 35 Pa. Super. 305
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 31

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Sidewalks—Accumulation of ice and snow — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>A municipality is not bound to remove smooth, slippery ice from a sidewalk where there are no hills or ridges which amount to an obstruction. The only exception to this rule is where the slippery condition is caused by the independent negligence of the municipality.</p> <p>A person is not entitled to recover from a city, damages for personal injuries caused by a fall on a slippery sidewalk, where it appears from his own testimony that the irregularity of the surface of the ice, where he fell, was not more than one-sixteenth of an inch.</p> <p>Where a person familiar with the slippery condition of a sidewalk, goes upon it and falls, he cannot recover for injuries sustained, if it appears that he knew that the walk on the other side of the street was in good condition, and that it was not necessary for him to go upon the slippery sidewalk.</p>