CITY OF PALATKA v. WOODS


78 So.2d 562 (1955)

CITY OF PALATKA, a municipal corporation organized and existing in Putnam County, State of Florida, Appellant, v. Elsie WOODS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

March 4, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walton & Walton, J.V. Walton and Kate L. Walton, Palatka, for appellant.

Charles J. Kapfer, Palatka, for appellee.


DREW, Justice.

It is seldom that a record establishes negligence of a city for defective maintenance of its sidewalks as clearly as in this case. That the condition of the sidewalk at the place where the plaintiff below was injured was dangerous to pedestrians appears conclusively from the photographs in evidence and from the lips of all the witnesses. It is not even questioned in the evidence that this stretch of sidewalk...

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