Sheldon v. City of Asheville

Aveky, J.:

The plaintiff testified that she had already passed over a portion of the plank sidewalk that was obviously bad, and over a portion of the street where it was entirely gone, when at a point directly in front of "West’s front door, where the sidewalk, “ as far as she could see,” was good, a strip gave way and let her foot between the boards, so as to throw her down. In this fall she received, the injury complained of. The Court charged the jury that if the sidewalk was in the condition testified to by the witnesses, and was allowed to remain so for any considerable length of time,…