McCarthy v. City of Boston

The plaintiff, while a traveller in the daytime in Boston, was injured at a point on Court Street then within the sidewalk at the corner of Brattle Street but now within the paved surface of the widened Court Street. She had crossed Court Street on a flagged walk and had placed one foot over the curbstone at a place where the bricks from the sidewalk had been taken up. Her toe caught in a depression and she fell as she was about to go on. The locality is a busy one. Other people were also crossing. Twice during her crossing she was stopped by automobiles which passed between her and the curb…