Ringrose v. Bloomsburg

Citations

• 167 Pa. 621
• 31 A. 863
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 959

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Contributory negligence — Borough—Defective sidewalk.</p> <p>In an action against a borough to recover damages for personal injuries caused by a fall on a defective sidewalk, the question of defendant’s negligence and plaintiff’s contributory negligence is for the jury, where the' evidence shows that the board walk at the point where plaintiff fell was rotten and upheaved by roots of trees; that some of tie cross boards were broken, and some of them out, and that plaintiff in traveling over it at night caught his foot in a hole where a board was out; that although he had previously walked along the side of the street where he fell, he had not done so recently and he was not very familiar with the pavement; that he did not know of its bad condition; that he knew the other side of the street was safe, but “ supposed it was all right ” to walk on the pavement where he fell.</p>