Urtel v. City of Flint

The plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for $450 for injuries sustained by stepping into a hole in a sidewalk, which, it is alleged, the defendant city allowed to become and remain in a dangerous condition. The averment as to the fault of the city is as follows:

“By allowing one of the planks of said sidewalk to be- • *66come broken and splintered, thereby making a depression on the surface of said walk of from four to six inches wide, and fifteen to eighteen inches in length, and about two to three inches in depth, which depression, when subjected to the weight of a person’s foot and…