Sutton v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 69 Pa. Super. 125
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 339

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Municipalities—Defect in street — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>A woman cannot recover damages for injuries sustained from falling into a hole in the cartway of a street at a crossing, where it appears that the hole was about sixteen inches long, ten inches wide, and twelve inches deep, that the woman knew of its existence, that her view was not obstructed by pedestrians, or otherwise, that after the accident she saw it from a point sixteen feet away, that the accident happened in broad daylight, and that although there was snow, there was no obstruction of the view of the hole.</p>