Haggerty v. City of Lewiston
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion by defendant. Action for damages sustained by an alleged defective way in the city of Lewiston. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
About seven o’clock, on the evening of October 15, 1899, the plaintiff, a girl fourteen years of age, who had previously suffered amputation of one leg, was walking on crutches *375on the sidewalk of Lisbon street, and sustained a fracture of the other leg by tripping against a course of bricks alleged to have been so laid as to constitute a defect in the walk. In the action brought to recover damages for this injury, she recovered a verdict of $600, and the case comes to this court on a motion to set aside the verdict as against the evidence.
It appears from the evidence that, at the point where…
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