Bilheimer v. Bethlehem

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The defendant has appealed from the judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff in an action to recover damages for personal injuries' sustained by falling into an excavation in a street of the defendant city.

The plaintiff, on January 3, 1938, when he was just past 74 years of age, resided on the west side of First Avenue, between Broad and North Streets, in the city of Bethlehem, his house being the second one north of Raspberry Street. On the morning in question, about 5:45 a. m., he left home intending to go to his work as a weighmaster at an artificial ice plant…