City of Covington v. Keal

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The appeal is from a judgment in favor of Miss Birdie Keal for $10,000 for personal injuries sustained by slipping and falling on a sidewalk. The accident occurred shortly after seven o’clock in the evening of April 5, 1937, at or near the corner of Thirty-Ninth and Locke Streets in Covington. At that place the sidewalk is three feet below the surface of the adjacent lot owned by the City Board of Education. There was once a retaining wall of concrete blocks^ but at the time of the accident much of the wall had fallen down or been…