Baker v. City of Wheeling

Hatcher, President:

This action involves both municipal and private liability for an injury occurring at an unguarded declivity beyond the end of an alleged public alley in the City of Wheeling. The alley commences at Eleventh Street and extends south about 330 feet towards (but not to) Twelfth Street, and varies in width from .fifteen feet at Eleventh Street to twelve feet at its southern terminus. The southern section of the alley is either fenced or walled entirely along both sides; and, for sixty years, prior to 1930, the southern terminus had been walled. Defendant, Twelfth Street Garage,…