City of Virginia Beach v. Roman

Mary L. Roman, hereinafter called plaintiff, recovered a verdict for $4,000 against the City of Virginia Beach for personal injuries sustained by her while walking on city property. The city’s motion to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and the evidence was overruled, and judgment entered for plaintiff. We granted the city an appeal.

The accident occurred when plaintiff stepped into a hole in a grass plot located between the concrete walk which extends in a northerly and southerly direction along the Atlantic Ocean and a row of hotels which face eastwardly toward the walk and ocean.…