Levan v. City of Allentown

WALLITSCH, J.,

Before this court is the City of Allentown’s motion for summary judgment. *260For the following reasons we grant the city’s motion for summary judgment.

On March 14, 2000, plaintiff Gloria Levan was walking on Hamilton Street between Fifth and Law Streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania, when she tripped and fell over a raised portion of a grate which surrounded a tree planted in the street’s sidewalk located on property owned by the County of Lehigh. As a result of the fall, Mrs. Levan sustained a severe left distal radius fracture that required pinning and external fixation. She also…