Krska v. Incorporated Town of Pocahontas

VEaMILI0N, J.

The appellant was injured by the giving way of an iron trapdoor that covered an opening in a concrete sid~wa1k on one of the business streets of the appellee town. The opening w~s into an areaway beneath the sidewalk that was used as a coal bin, and was connected with the adjoining business house. When appellant, in passing along the sidewalk, stepped upon the door, it gave way, allowing her limbs and the lower part of her body to fall into the opening, resulting in her injury. The material negligence charged was in permitting the doors to become defective, dangerous, and out of~…