Clausing v. Kershaw
Washington Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtPemberton, J.
This is an action for damages for personal injuries received by respondent as a result of a fall on the sidewalk in front of a building owned by the appellants W. E. Kershaw and Ruth E. Ker-shaw, in the appellant city of Yakima.
The testimony shows that the Kershaws were the owners of a building known as the Kershaw Building, in the city of Yakima, and in the summer of 1922 constructed in the center of the cement sidewalk in front of the building a light-well, eighteen feet long by six feet wide, consisting of pieces of glass about four inches square, between which there was a smooth substance…
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