Blackwell v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Jurey, J., entered December 9, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for personal injuries sustained through a fall upon a sidewalk.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This appeal is from a judgment for $500, rendered upon a verdict of a jury against the city of Seattle. It appears that the respondent Mrs. Blackwell, on the even*680ing of November 13, 1915, at about 9:30 o’clock, while walk-r ing along the west side of Rainier avenue, between Oreas and Findley streets, in the city of Seattle, stumbled and fell over a water pipe placed across the sidewalk. She was injured by the fall. Thereafter she filed a claim against the city and brought an action in her own name. Her husband, at that time, was residing in the state of Oregon, where he had been for a period…
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