Town of Elkhart v. Ritter

Lydia Ritter sued the town of Elkhart, to recover damages occasioned to her by a fall into a pit in the sidewalk of one of the most public streets of said town, viz., Jackson street. She alleged that the town negligently permitted an excavation to be made in said sidewalk, about ten feet wide, eight feet deep and sixty feet* in length, “ and so situated as to prevent pedestrians from passing along the said sidewalk of said street without turning out into that portion of said street usually devoted to wheeled vehicles; that said excavation was upon one of the streets of said town most used by…