MacDonald v. City of Boston

The plaintiff was hurt by stepping into a *619hole in the surface of Summer Street, Boston. On the evidence most favorable to her, the hole was shaped like a triangle, measuring about eighteen or nineteen inches- at the base and about eight to twelve inches on the sides. It was “worn off at the edges, started at street level and gradually went down to a depth of two inches and went up again,” being “sort of saucer shape.” “It was worn on the outer ehd a-nd had tapered to the center and there was a piece of car track in a part of the hole.” The street was thirty-six or thirty-seven feet wide,…