Evans v. City of Hutchinson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Laura Belle Evans recovered a judgment against the city of Hutchinson on account of injuries she received in a fall caused by irregularity in thq surface of a sidewalk due to the scaling off of the cement crust covering a space about two feet long and six inches wide. The defendant appeals.

1. One witness testified that the depression in the surface of the walk occasioned by the breaking and removal of the crust was about half an inch deep. Another who visited the place two or three weeks after the accident estimated the depth at three inches.…