City of Cleveland v. Pine

Plaintiff below and his wife were walking in Garfield Park in the city of Cleveland, on Sunday afternoon, August 10,1924. Mrs. Pine stepped upon a manhole cover in one of the walks of the park, which gave way and caused her to fall, from which she suffered injuries that necessitated medical treatment and rendered her unable to perform her usual household duties for a period of time, from which inability her husband, Howard Pine, sustained the damages complained of, to wit, medical expenses, loss of service, etc.

It was seriously urged in oral argument by counsel for the defendant in error that…