Familiari v. Lancaster City
Familiari v. Lancaster City
Opinion of the Court
Opinion
Ordet affirmed. See Ily v. Worth Versailles Township, 416 Pa. 103, 204 A. 2d 253 (1964).
Dissenting Opinion
Dissenting'Opinion by
I dissent, believing' 'appellant was entitled to have a jury pass on whether the City of Lancaster was negligent in permitting the ice and snow to accumulate for at least a-two, week period on the street normally used by appellant in making her way home.
Briefly, the facts as found by the trial court disclose the following. Appellant was a sixty-five year old woman. She alighted from a bus at 9:00 p.m. in
I do not believe that it can be said as a matter of law, given the circumstances of this case, appellant was not entitled to have her evidence considered by a jury. The record, viewed in the light most favorable to appellant, demonstrates that Frederick Street had not been plowed more than two or three times in the past fourteen years. A municipality should owe a duty to the public to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of sidewalks and other public ways in a safe condition for passage of pedestrians, and this duty should extend to the elimination of dangerous conditions caused by unreasonable accumulations of ice and snow, such as that present in this record.
Accordingly, I dissent.
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