Morrison v. City of Ironwood

The plaintiff, a woman 53 years of age, on the morning of March 17, 1914, while walking westerly on Ayer street in defendant city, and while crossing the crosswalk on the south side of that street where it is intersected by Lowell street, stepped into a temporary drain dug in the snow, causing a fall from which she received serious injuries. The streets at the place of the accident are paved, the pavement extending over and constituting the crosswalks, and during the winter months, when large quantities of snow and ice accumulate on the streets, it is spread out by the city employees, and…