Shetulski v. Mount Carmel Borough

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 85
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 154

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Defective sidewalk — Contributory negligence — Man on crutches.</p> <p>A boy seventeen years old compelled at the time to use crutches cannot be charged, as a matter of law, with contributory negligence in going over a hole of considerable size in a defective sidewalk, where it ' appears that he knew of the hole, that he had gone over it before, that he did all in his power to avoid injury, and the evidence as to an alternative route is conflicting.</p>