Rule v. City of Bay City

Plaintiff was injured when she caught her right foot on a steel pipe protruding from one. of defendant’s sidewalks (all witnesses save one testified that it could have been a sleeve).

The hollow steel pipe and surrounding tapered concrete collar were what remained of a street sign which had been removed some five months before the accident. There was conflicting testimony at trial as to the height of the remaining portion of pipe as well as conflicting testimony about the height of the collar.

Briefly, it was plaintiff’s claim that the defendant city was negligent in maintaining, or failing to…