Euler v. City of Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The verdicts in favor of the respective plaintiffs settle all disputed questions of fact in their favor.

Walter Euler, a boy eleven years old, had his arm badly crushed and broken by getting it caught between the wall of a house and a heavily loaded'cable reel, which had been left on the sidewalk of a public street by the city authorities, without any block or'other contrivance to keep it from rolling or being rolled by children.

The reel, with the lead cable wound around it, weighed about a thousand pounds. The cable was intended for use in the city’s fire alarm police…