KAROHL Presiding Judge.
Defendant City of St. Louis appeals from a judgment entered on a $75,000 jury verdict for plaintiff pedestrian Rita Smith. Smith was injured when she stepped backward and to her left into a hole in the sidewalk cut out around a fire hydrant on the north side of Minerva in the City of St. Louis. On appeal defendant contends only that plaintiff was contributorily negligent as a matter of law. We affirm.
At the time of the casualty plaintiff...
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