Neer v. City of Sumas

Citations

• 109 Wash. 663
• 187 P. 337
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 927

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (420)—Streets—Defective Sidewalks —Negligence of City—Unprecedented Floods. The fact that a sidewalk was tilted out of level by an unprecedented flood and remained so for ten days, does not show negligence on the part of the town, where practically all the sidewalks had been washed out of place or destroyed and the city, after using every effort in its power, had been unable to repair the damage before the accident.</p>