Shafer v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 60 Pa. Super. 256
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 178

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Sidewalk—Depression in sidewalk.</p> <p>Where a woman steps into a depression in the sidewalk of a city street during a dark night and in a locality with which she is not. familiar, and is injured, she may recover damages from the city by proof, that she fell at a point where a driveway to a garage crossed the sidewalk; that the difference in the levels of the sidewalk and driveway, was between three and four inches, and that there was no ordinance regulating the construction of. such a driveway.</p>