Keeler v. the Lederer Realty Corporation

This is trespass on the case for negligence.

The declaration sets out that the defendant Julie P. Adie Anthony, on the first day of April, 1903, was and for a long time prior thereto had been the owner of a certain estate with a dwelling house thereon, situated on Mathewson street, a public highway in the city of Providence; that said dwelling house is located flush, or nearly so, with the sidewalk which forms a part of said highway, and has a roof which pitches towards the street, and a rain-trough thereto attached, at the eaves of said roof, at a height of twenty feet above the sidewalk and…