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AMERICAN

LAW REPORTS

ΑΝΝΟΤΑΤED

VOL. 13

MAUDE D. CARL
V.

CITY OF NEW HAVEN, Appt.

Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors - July 16, 1919.

(93 Conn. 622, 107 Atl. 502.)

Municipal corporations - duty to keep streets free from snow.

1. Municipal corporations must exercise such efforts and employ such measures to keep their streets free from ice and snow, that they may be in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances affecting the situation, as, in view of all the circumstances and conditions, are in themselves reasonable.

[See note on this question beginning on page 17.]

-notice of dangerous condition

water on sidewalk.

2. Notice to a policeman of the fact that water was running from melting snow when the sun was shining onto a sidewalk, which might freeze after sundown, is not notice to the city of a

dangerous condition caused by the ice after it has frozen, which will require it to adopt remedial measures, and mark the time of origin of that duty in determining whether or not it was performed in a reasonable time.

[See 13 R. C. L. 340, 347, 348.]

APPEAL by defendant from a judgment of the Superior Court for New Haven County (Haines, J.) in favor of plaintiff in an action brought to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by defendant's negligence. Judgment set aside.

Statement by Prentice, Ch. J.: Action to recover damages for personal injuries from a fall upon an icy sidewalk which the defendant was alleged to have negligently left

13 A.L.R.-1.

in a slippery and defective condition. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,725.

About 8 o'clock in the evening of February 15, 1917, the plaintiff sus

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