Loud v. Inhabitants of Belmont

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries caused to the plaintiff on March 28, 1964, at about 10:00 A.M. while the plaintiff was walking on a public sidewalk on Common Street at or near Payson *87Road in Belmont.

The defendant’s answer in so far as is here material, was a general denial, that the plaintiff was contributorily negligent and assumed the risk of injury.

There was evidence that the plaintiff was walking on Common Street, looking where she was walking, that she tripped over a concrete sidewalk block with a difference in elevation between two concrete blocks at the place…