Boyd v. Kensington Water Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

These appeals are from judgments for defendant notwithstanding verdicts for the plaintiffs. The wife-plaintiff was injured at about eleven o’clock at night, October 18, 1930, by tripping over what, in the statement of claim, are called water boxes, located a few inches apart, and described in the evidence as iron structures about five inches in diameter and five or six inches high. The statement averred that they were maintained by defendant “on the easterly side of said Freeport Street between the curb and the sidewalk,” and that “it was so dark that the plaintiff…