Cakouns v. City of Cambridge

This action based on tort, is for compensation due the plaintiff because of injuries received by her on March 8, 1940 due to the alleged defective condition of a sidewalk on Garden Street, Cambridge.

The defendant in its answer alleged a general denial, contributory negligence and the place where the alleged injuries happened was not a public way.

There was evidence that the plaintiff accompanied by her child, while on the way to the latter’s school at 8:15 a. m. on March 8, 1940 in crossing a driveway which was composed of granite blocks or cobblestones, on Garden Street in Cambridge and near…