Todd v. City of Hailey

ADAIR, Commissioner.

This is an action for damages brought by respondents, husband and wife, on account of personal injuries sustained by tbe wife as a result of a fall caused, while traveling at night upon a public sidewalk, by stepping into an uncovered irrigation ditch which crossed said sidewalk, and which ditch also belonged to, and was maintained by, the appellant city. It is alleged that planks, forming a small bridge across this lateral where it intersected the cement sidewalk, had been removed, and the lateral left uncovered, so as to be a menace to pedestrians passing that way at…