Flynn v. Town of West Hartford

The jury might reasonably have found that the plaintiff in the daytime drove his automobile into a pile of sand and earth and an excavation located upon the traveled part of a highway in the defendant town, made by it in repairing or altering a water-main, and left by it without adequately guarding it; that the excavation was about three feet wide and three and one half feet deep, and began two feet from the curb, and that the sand and earth, thrown up from the excavation, extended on either side one and nine tenths feet beyond the excavation and to a height of one foot.

In the argument of…