Browder v. City of Winston-Salem

Tbe plaintiff bottoms ber case against tbe defendant corporation on tbe allegation that it negligently permitted “much of tbe rain, melted snow, and other waters that fell, formed on, or were collected on tbe roofs, bay windows, gutters, and other portions of tbe premises there maintained ... to fall and drain onto tbe public sidewalk and that the waters so draining and falling onto tbe public way frequently formed into ice, thereby unlawfully obstructing tbe use of tbe said sidewalk and rendering tbe same unsafe for pedestrian travel” and that it negligently permitted such condition to…