Hutchings v. Inhabitants of Sullivan
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Motton and Exceptions by Defendant. This was an action to recover damages from the defendant town alleged to have been received on account of a defect in a certain sidewalk witbin tlie town.
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On Motton and Exceptions by Defendant. This was an action to recover damages from the defendant town alleged to have been received on account of a defect in a certain sidewalk witbin tlie town. For the purpose of showing that the sidewalk was within tbe limits of some way in the defendant town, tbe plaintiff introduced a record of a location of a way made in 1818 by tbe county commissioners court, and then, claiming that tbe bounds of tbe way could not be made certain by records or monuments, the plaintiff sought to establish tbe limits of tbe way, under the provisions of R. S., c. 18, §■ 95,…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
This is an action to recover damages for injuries claimed to have been received through a defect in a concrete sidewalk in the town of Sullivan. There was a depression in the sidewalk about three feet long, two feet wide, and five and a quarter inches deep in the lowest place. The plaintiff says that as she was walking along on this sidewalk on a dark, foggy evening, she stepped into this depression and was thereby thrown down, breaking her arm and otherwise injuring herself. She has obtained a verdict for three hundred dollars; a.nd the case is before the law court on motions and exceptions…
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