GILFILEN v. CITY OF SEWARD

No. 15854.

262 F.2d 864 (1959)

Hal GILFILEN, Appellant, v. CITY OF SEWARD, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

January 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLaughlin & Atkinson, Boyko, Talbot & Tulin, Anchorage, Alaska, Edgar Paul Boyko, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Raymond E. Plummer, Plummer & Delaney, Anchorage, Alaska, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Charles A. Legge, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before HEALY, POPE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant brought suit against the City of Seward, Alaska, for damages for injuries sustained by him in the month of February 1954 due to a fall on a public sidewalk in that city.

In his complaint he alleged that for a long period of time prior to the date of his fall snow and ice had accumulated upon the sidewalk to such an extent that travel over or upon the walk was insecure and unsafe for pedestrians in that snow and ice had accumulated...

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