Robertson v. Monroe
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. The town of Hillsborough raised the money to repair Depot street, and the defendant selectmen had charge of the work. They decided to lower the grade of the street in front of Judge Holman’s house about eighteen inches. The sidewalk was originally about eighteen inches higher than.the traveled part of the street and after this work was done, there was an abrupt drop of from two and one-half to three feet from the sidewalk to the gutter.
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Case, for negligence. The town of Hillsborough raised the money to repair Depot street, and the defendant selectmen had charge of the work. They decided to lower the grade of the street in front of Judge Holman’s house about eighteen inches. The sidewalk was originally about eighteen inches higher than.the traveled part of the street and after this work was done, there was an abrupt drop of from two and one-half to three feet from the sidewalk to the gutter. There had been two entrances from the street to the Holman property, one at the east, the other at the west of the house; but after the…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The defendants, who were highway officers of the town of Hillsborough, in doing the work of lowering the grade of a highway in the town, left unprotected, in a dangerous condition, a driveway leading into the highway from land of an adjoining owner. There had been two driveways to the premises so arranged that persons driving in at one entrance would naturally drive out at the other. One driveway was replaced; the other was not, until after the accident, which occurred some six months after the change was made. In the path of this driveway within the highway limits there was, as the highway…
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