Jones v. City of Boston

Tort on the Gen. Sts. c. 44, § 22, for an injury alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through a defect in a highway in Boston. Trial before Morton, J., who reported the casa . follows • “ At the trial the plaintiff offered to prove that, on June 7 1867, as she was travelling along the sidewalk of Union Street, a public highway in said city, which the defendants were bound to keep in repair, and using due care, a sign or signs, suspended and projecting over said sidewalk, together with the iron rod or frame from which the same were hung, but so high that persons travelling along said…