Lightcap v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

*621The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

While walking along Mercer street, in the town of Phillipsburg, the appellant fell and injured her kneecap. She attributed the accident to the dangerous condition of t lie walk, owing to the accumulation of ice thereon, caused, as she alleges, by the wrongful act of the defendant in causing to be brought an accumulation of snow upon its lands adjoining the walk, which snow in the process of melting flowed upon the sidewalk, thereby creating a public nuisance and causing tlie injury in question.

The facts elicited from the testimony show that…