Court Opinion

ID: 5500766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 02:59:07.838035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:55.503599
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Landon, J.
We reversed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, upon the former appeal,-because we thought the evidence was conclusive that the street gutter was in good condition. 4 U. Y. Supp. 528. Upon the second trial, which now comes before us, the evidence on the part of the plaintiff tended to show that the gutter was in fact defective, and had long been so. The gutter was on the south side of Middleburgh street, in the city of Troy, and across Eighth street, at its intersection with Middleburgh-. It was a “basket” gutter, carved in the natural rock, and was for the passage of surface water. It was originally properly constructed, 8 feet wide on top, 18 inches deep, and gradually sloping down from the top on each side to the center line at the bottom. The testimony tended to show that the rock had so broken out on the south side as to form a perpendicular wall eight inches high, and that the plaintiff, while sitting in his wagon driving his team of horses down hill around the corner from Middleburgh into Eighth street, the intersection being on a hill-side, was thrown from his wagon and injured, because the wheel on the down-hill side sank in the depression next the solid wall, while the wheel on the opposite side mounted the elevation. The disputed questions of fact were for the jury, and we see no errors of law requiring.a reversal. Judgment affirmed, with costs. All concur.