Dittmar v. City of Flint

This is what is known as a sidewalk injury case. Plaintiff alleged that one of the public sidewalks on Saginaw street, in Flint, was defective and out of repair “in that, at a point near to and abutting number 518 North Saginaw street, there was a large upraising of one slab of concrete from the next, the southernmost slab being three inches upraised from that adjoining to the north across its entire width running east and west.”

Plaintiff’s fall and resulting injury occurred April 19, 1963. The defendant city moved for summary judgment upon showing of conceded fact that the sidewalk of…