Dean v. City of Boston

In this action plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries sustained by him by reason of a defect in a public way.

There was evidence that on January 27, 1968 at about 11:00 A.M. the plaintiff was walking on the sidewalk near the Williams School; that there was a rise in said sidewalk; that said rise was located about three feet from the alleyway which allegedly runs parallel to East Berkeley Street. The rise was about four (4) inches high and eight (8) inches wide and “consisting of the edge of an adjacent granolithic block rising four (4) inches from the level of the adjoining…