Sutton v. City of Snohomish

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Anders, J.

Avenue B is a street running north and south in the city of Snohomish (a municipal corporation of the third class), and is intersected at right angles by First street, which is the principal thoroughfare of the city. About seven o’clock in the evening of December 10,1892, the respondent, while walking north on the sidewalk on the east side of the avenue, fell into an excavation, whereby he sustained serious personal injuries. This excavation was on the west side of a brick building fronting on First street and extending north on the east line…