Hickey v. City of Waltham

This is an action for personal injuries, and the case comes before us on an exception to a ruling that the plaintiff was not entitled to go to the jury on her evidence. The evidence tended to show the following facts. The plaintiff lived on the northerly side of Calvary Street in Waltham. The city was engaged in building a sewer in the street, had dug a trench there, and had piled the earth from the trench on the northerly side of the street, covering the sidewalk and trespassing upon the land in front of the plaintiff’s house. The house was set back only six or seven feet from the street, so…