White v. City of Worcester

The plaintiff, who was employed in a building abutting the sidewalk where she was injured, left her place of employment at about three o’clock in the morning of July 4, 1939, and was walking along the outer edge of the *280granolithic sidewalk when she was thrown and injured by reason of stepping down about five inches into a driveway that the defendant city had constructed over the outer portion of the sidewalk. This driveway, which was about eighteen feet in width, started at its mouth at a level with that portion of the highway set apart for vehicular travel, and then sloped upwards across the…