McDonald v. President & Trustees

In 1885 appellant owned and occupied a building on the north side of Tenth street, in the village of Lockport. Desiring a better sidewalk in front of his building he tore away the old one and excavated the earth under the same about eight feet deep, and laid a new stone sidewalk in the place of the old one, about eleven feet wide, and thirty feet long. Some time after this new sidewalk was laid by appellant, and being used by the 'public, one Eandall Lynn, on the 4th of March, 1886, fell into a hole in said sidewalk and was injured. For this injury Lynn sued the village of Lockport. A trial…