Veale v. City of Boston

The plaintiff was injured, in November, 1880, by falling over a wooden step, alleged to be a defect in a public street which the defendant was bound to keep in repair. A plan annexed to the bill of exceptions shows that this step was adjacent to the gate in the fence of Boston Common, near the corner of Park Street and Tremont Street; and that it projected beyond the line of the fence into the sidewalk on Park Street.

The only question presented by the bill of exceptions is whether the Superior Court was justified in ruling that there was no sufficient evidence that the alleged defect was in a…