Guinter v. Williamsport
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 233, Jan. T., 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., June T., 1902, No. 114, on verdict for defendant in case of John L. Guinter v. City of Williamsport. ' Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by falling on a sidewalk. Before Hart, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 233, Jan. T., 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., June T., 1902, No. 114, on verdict for defendant in case of John L. Guinter v. City of Williamsport. ' Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by falling on a sidewalk. Before Hart, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were various instructions, and particularly (2) that the court failed to instruct the jury that the wire was a nuisance per se.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The accident complained of occurred in broad daylight on the sidewalk on the south side of Lycoming street in the city of Williamsport being that side of the street on which plain.tiff had lived for ten or twelve years and over which he passed half a dozen times a day to and from his home. The street *589proper had. never been paved, nor was the sidewalk actually separated from the street by a line of curbstone although the demarcation between the two was noticeable. By an ordinance of the city there is laid upon the sidewalk a paving of stone five feet wide. The same…
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