Nord v. Butte Water Co.

The plaintiff, Frances Nord, has appealed from a judgment of dismissal and for costs, entered on a directed verdict in favor of the defendant, the Butte Water Company, a corporation.

The action was founded on injuries received on the night of September 27, 1932, when, on a dark residential street in the city of Butte, Mrs. Nord tripped over a “curb-bos” capping an open pipe leading down to the service-pipe conducting water from the defendant’s main to a private residence. Originally the top of the curb-box had been set level with the sidewalk and about a foot inside the curb, but the sidewalk…