Drake v. City of Seattle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fullerton, J.

The respondents, who were plaintiffs below, are husband and wife. They brought this action to recover for personal injuries received by the wife from a fall into an opening made in one of the public streets of the city of Seattle by certain persons who were engaged under a contract with the city in laying a sewer therein. In laying the sewer the contractors did not dig a continuous trench or ditch along the surface of the ground, but dug a series of openings certain distances apart, and connected these by running tunnels from one to the…