Stephenson v. W. R. Grimshaw Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action for damages sustained by plaintiff, who tripped on a plank negligently laid across a sidewalk, which caused her to fall and injure herself.

The locus in quo was as follows: Pine street and Walnut street in the city of Pittsburg run north and south. Seventh street runs east *533and west, intersecting Walnut and Pine streets. There is a brick or concrete sidewalk, 5 feet wide, on the south side of Seventh street in that locality.

Early in 1936 the defendant, W. R. Grimshaw Company, had undertaken the construction of a building…