MacDermid v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered April 7, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the defendant, in an action for personal injuries caused by a defective sidewalk.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, C. J.
Appellant, claiming to have received an injury caused by a defective sidewalk, sued the city. The cause was submitted to a jury, and verdict returned for the city, upon which judgment was entered and this appeal taken.
The place of the injury was on Alki avenue near the municipal bathing beach. At this point Alki avenue is about fifteen feet above the beach, and is reached by a flight of stairs. Appellant, coming up the stairs from the beach to the avenue, claims that, as she reached the sidewalk on the avenue, she stepped upon a loose plank which flew up, catching her foot, and resulting in a…
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