Marlowe v. City of Los Angeles

Plaintiff appeals from an order granting defendant a new trial in an action for personal injuries brought pursuant to the provisions of the Public Liability Law, sections 53050 and 53051 of the Government Code. The complaint alleged that defendant negligently failed to keep a public highway within the city of Los Angeles free from an accumulation of water, moss, debris, algae and other slippery substances ; that defendant had notice of such dangerous and defective condition and both means and opportunity to remedy the same; that while stepping into the street, which had become slippery due to…