Hibberd v. Philadelphia
Hibberd v. Philadelphia
Opinion of the Court
The appellee fell on an icy pavement in the City of Philadelphia* and, for the injuries sustained, he recovered a judgment in the court below, the jury having
The eighth assignment complains of the admission of an ordinance of the city requiring the removal of snow from the sidewalks and gutters in all parts of the city. The admission of this ordinance was not error: Leder
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- Negligence — Municipalities—Ice on sidewalk — Pedestrian—Notice of condition — Evidence—City ordinance — Case for jury. 1. In an action against a municipality to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by falling on an icy pavement, tbe ease was properly submitted to tbe jury and a verdict for tbe plain1 tiff will be sustained where it appears that the ice had been on the pavement for a week or ten days prior to the accident, although the plaintiff, a man of advanced age had testified in depositions previously taken that at 3 o’clock on the afternoon of his fall the ice was soft, and that at the time of the accident, which occurred on his return trip two and a half hours later, the pavement was frozen over with water which came from a terrace and where the trial judge charged the jury that unless they found from all the testimony that the icy condition of the pavement was dangerous and had been so for so long a time that the city was presumed to have had notice of it, there could be no recovery, and further that if the accident had been caused by ice that had formed on the day of the accident there could be no recovery. 2. In such case it is not error to admit in evidence an ordinance requiring the removal of snow from the sidewalks and gutters in all parts of the city.