Robb v. Connellsville Bor.

Citations

• 137 Pa. 42
• 26 W.N.C. 517
• 20 A. 564
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 948

Syllabus

<p>1. The reasonable care which the law exacts of all persons, in whatever they do involving the risk of injury, requires travelers on the footways of public streets to look where they are going; especially, when they are about to step upon the crossing of an intersecting street, where they are bound to expect the continuity if not the level of the pavement to be broken.</p> <p>. A plaintiff, suing for an injury received by falling over the footway of a street crossing, raised six inches above the level of the footway upon which she was walking, should be nonsuited for contributory negligence, when it appears from her own testimony that she could have seen the obstruction had she looked where she was going, and that her fall resulted from a failure so to look.</p>