Altemus v. Talmadge

GRONER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff in an action for personal injury. (Since the entry of judgment, plaintiff died, and her executor was substituted, but we shall speak of her throughout as appellee.) In her declaration, appellee claimed damages against appellants jointly for injuries sustained on September 21, 1927, as the result of a defective sidewalk jointly maintained on the west side of Fourteenth street in the city of Washington. Appellee, a woman sixty years of age, about 9 o’clock in the evening, was…