Anderson v. City of Albion

Oldham, C.

This is an action brought for damages by Mrs. Anderson, the plaintiff in error, against the city of Albion, for injuries received by her, alleged to have been occasioned by a defective sidewalk in that city. The petition alleges, and the testimony tends to show, that on one of the main traveled streets of that city was a wooden sidewalk, in which was a loose and broken plank; that this plank was immediately over an excavation from two to three feet deep; that Mrs. Anderson, in passing over this sidewalk, stepped on this broken and loose plank, which gave way, causing her to fall…