Preiss v. City of New York

During the construction of certain buildings on Franklin avenue, Brooklyn, an iron pipe about an inch and a half in diameter lay across tbe sidewalk with the end thereof turned upward about a foot or so from the curb. Later a new sidewalk of cement or concrete was laid upon this pipe and around the end of it nearest the curb so as to leave the end of the pipe projecting upward above the new sidewalk about two and a half inches. This condition continued for more than a year and until the plaintiff, a pedestrian, in passing by stumbled against tbe pipe and was thrown down and injured. The…