Mayor of Hagerstown v. Hertzler

The appeal is from a judgment against the City of Hagerstown for loss by the plaintiff of the services of his wife, alleged to have been caused by her tripping over a guy wire supporting a small tree in a grass strip between a paved sidewalk and the curb along one of the city streets.

So much of the testimony describing the site refers to plats and a picture, none of which are before the court on appeal, that it cannot be restated with assurance of correctness in all details, but so far as can be seen the facts are these. Wilson Boulevard was a wide highway not completed in its full length at…