McDevit v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 35 Pa. Super. 317
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 33

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Sidewalk—Accumulation of ice and snow.</p> <p>In an action against a city to recover damages for the personal injuries sustained by a fall on a slippery sidewalk, a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained where the plaintiff and three other witnesses for the plaintiff testified to the existence of hills and ridges of ice of a dangerous character continuing so long as to charge the city with constructive notice; and this is the case although three or four of the plaintiff's own witnesses contradicted the plaintiff, and twelve or fifteen witnesses for the defendant testified that no such condition existed on the sidewalk in question at the time of the accident or before it.</p>