Zolawenski v. City of Aberdeen
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chehalis county, Sheeks, J., entered December 4, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian through a defective bridge.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
This is an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff wife. The gravamen of the charge is, that a certain bridge in the defendant city formed a part of a public street; that it was used by pedestrians; that there was a hole in the bridge, which had existed for a period of five or six months before the date of the alleged injury; that the plaintiff wife stepped into the hole, fell, and “that she was thereby bruised about the legs and body, and that the skin was peeled and scraped from her leg, and that by being thrown to the floor of said bridge, prolapsus uteri was…
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