Village of Clayton v. Brooks

On the night of July 22, 1886, between the hours of nine and ten o’clock, appellee, while returning to her home in the village of Clayton, and while passing over the sidewalk along Jefferson street, one of the streets of that village, stepped ifito a hole in the sidewalk, in consequence of which she fell and received severe personal injury. It appears from her testimony that she knew of the defect in the sidewalk three or four weeks before the accident, and that when she left the lodge building, where she had been for the evening, it was too dark to see or distinguish anything on the…