Witham v. City of Portland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion to set aside the verdict rendered in the superior court, Cumberland. An action on the ease for damages sustained by the plaintiff for personal injuries caused by an alleged defect in the sidewalk on Milk street, in Portland. The opinion states the material facts.
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
The plaintiff recovered a verdict of six thousand five hundred dollars against the city of Portland, for a personal injury which he testified was caused solely by an alleged defect in the sidewalk which extends along the east end of Stanton block, on the west side of Milk street. The sidewalk, as laid out by the city authorities, is seven feet in width, the outside line thereof being within four and one-half inches of the east end of the block, the whole space being bricked as if the sidewalk extended clear to the block, except as follows.
In the east end of the block is a basement window,…
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