City of Lynchburg v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, rendered September 21, 1896, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 6th day of February, 1895, the defendant in error, while passing down one of the streets of the city of Lynchburg, slipped and fell, breaking her left arm. The street at the scene of the accident was covered with ice two or three inches thick, formed by the freezing of water which flowed from the gutter of an adjacent house. The defendant in error, as appears by her own testimony, had, four or five days before, seen this accumulation of ice on the sidewalk, and avoided it by going on the other side of the street, but, at the time of the…
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