Witham v. City of Boston

The plaintiff was injured by falling on the sidewalk of a public way. Due notice of the time, place and cause of the accident was given. There was evidence that in the brick sidewalk there was an iron water plate “a little to one side of the middle of the sidewalk”; that at the place where the plaintiff fell the sidewalk was wet and “sloping down”; that the “sloping place went down to this . . . plate”; that the sidewalk was covered with ice and water and she was on the slope when she fell. One of the plaintiff’s companions testified that she was about three feet in front of the plaintiff;…