Lewis v. City of Bluefield

CHRISTIE, District Judge:

This action arose when plaintiff, a resident of Virginia, filed a complaint on December 13, 1968, against the de*437fendant, the City of Bluefield, a West Virginia Municipal Corporation, seeking damages in excess of $10,000.00, exclusive of interest and costs, for personal injury. Thus, the necessary requisites for federal jurisdiction appear.

The plaintiff alleges that on December 22, 1966, she fell on the public sidewalk on Russell Street, in the city of Bluefield, receiving serious bodily injury. It is further alleged that the defendant City had allowed the sidewalk to…