Geagley v. City of Bedford

On January 4, 1943, appellee, seventy-three years old and long a resident of defendant city, fell on an icy sidewalk near the hotel operated by her for twenty-five years. She thereby suffered personal injury for which she claims the city is liable in damages.

She alleges that for a period of six weeks preceding the accident the city had allowed snow to accumulate as it fell from time to time; that it failed to remove dirt along the north side of the walk, which stopped the drainage of water therefrom; and that a- process of thawing and melting took place causing ice to form at that point and…