Tagge v. City of Roslyn

Citations

• 51 Wash. 258
• 98 P. 668
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 1009

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets — Excavations — Barriers— Sufficiency. Where a trench in an alley .extending across a sidewalk was to lie guarded simply over night, barriers are sufficient, as a matter of law, where a one-by-six board was nailed three or four feet above the walk to the corner of a building, two or three feet distant from the trench, and to a post at the outer edge of the sidewalk, with a ten-penny nail at each end of the board, and beneath the board a two by twelve plank, four feet long, was laid against the house and a similar one against the post and a third plank laid horizontally across the two, the place being well lighted by arc lights in the street on either side 150 feet distant from the alley, besides other lights from the building reflecting on the sidewalk.</p>