Gavett v. City of Jackson

This action is brought to recover for injuries received by plaintiff while traveling-on a sidewalk in Mill street, in the city of Jackson, the cause of the injury being a formation of ice, consisting of a ridge from 1-J- to 2 inches thick in the center, and sloping from the center either way, and in all covering about 3 feet in width. The evidence disclosed that this ice was formed by the freezing of a discharge of water carried by a conductor pipe of an adjoining building, and that this pipe had been in use for seven or eight *409years before the accident, and that the common result was for ice…