Creed v. . Hartmann

There was not sufficient evidence of negligence on the part of the plaintiff to warrant the court to take the case from the jury. It did not appear that she had any reason to suppose the boards placed for people to walk over were not sufficient. On the contrary, she saw others passing, and, as it was usual to make such bridges to pass over excavations in the side-walks, she had no reason to suppose there was any difference in the present case. It is only where the negligence is clearly proved, that the court is warranted in dismissing the complaint. The defendant was one of a firm who had the…