Gross v. Pittsburgh
Gross v. Pittsburgh
Opinion of the Court
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The plaintiff sustained her injuries by falling upon an icy pavement in the City of Pittsburgh, on the aiternoon of a December day. Charging the city with negligence in permitting thé ice'to accumulate and remain upon'the pavement, arid attributing her injuries to this circumstance, she brought her action for damages and recovered a verdict of $2,500.00. A motion for judgment rion obstante was refused, and judgment on the verdict was ordered; ■ The appeal denies the right of recovery,.-.first, because the evidence does not show the cause of the accident; second, because; it does not show'a dangerous condition of the pavement for a length of time sufficient to charge the city with constructive notice; and third, contributory negligence on the part of the • plaintiff. With respect to the first, it is sufficient to say that while
“sometimes it would go away a little, á little of it would go away from the top whenever it began to thaw’ out, but most of the time that spot was still lying there, no matter if it was snowing or not, or thawing or not,, that that ice was. still there.”
He also testified that he had once fallen on it himself.'
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- Negligence — Municipalities—City streets — Accumulation of ice —Constructive notice — Pedestrians—Contributory negligence. In an action against a city to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff through falling upon an icy pavement on a city street on the afternoon of a December day, it appeared from the testimony that at the point where plaintiff fell there were ridges of ice extending across the paving varying from two to four inches in thickness, covered by an inch or more of snow. There was evidence in the ease, that because of the broken spout on a building in front of which the plaintiff fell ice had been accumulating on the pavément at different times throughout the winter, and several witnesses testified to having seen the pavement in such condition at various times during the season before the accident, one of them testifying to this condition as existing on the day before. Held, that whether or not the city was chargeable with constructive notice of the obstruction was a question for the jury, as was also the question of plaintifE’s contributory negligence and that a verdict for the plaintiff should be sustained.