City of Ludlow v. DeVinney

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Carroll

Reversing.

In the city of Ludlow there was a wooden bridge about 165 feet long used by street oars, vehicles and foot *317passengers. Some time in the spring of 1916 the city finding it necessary to make some repairs on the bridge diverted the foot passenger traffic from its usual place to that part of the bridge used by vehicles, and in order to confine this traffic to the place on the wagon way set apart for it the city erected a barrier that separated the space to be used by foot passengers from the remainder of the bridge which was to be used by…