West v. City of Portsmouth

The plaintiff, Mary E. West, proceeded by motion for judgment against the city of Portsmouth alleging that she had been injured in a fall resulting from a defective condition which the city negligently permitted to exist in one of its sidewalks. A jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $5,000.00, which verdict the city moved to set aside as contrary to the law and the evidence. The trial court sustained the city’s motion to set aside the verdict and entered final judgment for it, to which action of the trial court we granted the plaintiff this writ of error.

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