McHugh v. Hawthorne Building & Loan Ass'n

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

This is a sidewalk case. The basic question involved relates to the liability of an owner of property for a nuisance created by the wrongful or negligent act of its predecessor in title, in making repairs to the sidewalk abutting said property, upon the owner having taken a deed for the property with such existent nuisance in the sidewalk.

On or about October 5th, 1935, Helen McHugh, while walking on the sidewalk, abutting defendanPs property, which was alleged to have been in a broken, defective, uneven and irregular condition, caught and…