Millson v. City of Lynden

¶1 — A municipality has a duty to pedestrians using its sidewalks to keep the sidewalks reasonably safe for their intended use.1 Generally “ ‘[a] pedestrian on a sidewalk who has no knowledge to the contrary may proceed on the assumption that the city has performed its full duty and has kept the sidewalk in a reasonably safe condition . . . ”2 Nor is a pedestrian “required to keep his eyes on the walk immediately in front of him at all times.”3 And the fact that there is an offset that a pedestrian could *307see if he looked “does not constitute . . . negligence as a matter of law unless there is…