The plaintiff was injured by falling on defendant’s board sidewalk, being tripped by a loose board. The proofs shоw that the walk was old, and the stringers so rotten that they would not hold nails driven into them. Evidence was given tending to show that no repairs had been made upon said walk for more than a year; and John Norton, a witness fоr plaintiff, testified to being tripped by a loose board in said walk some eight months before the acсident to the plaintiff. The court admitted this, against defendant’s objection and exception, as tending to show a long continuance of the defective condition of the walk, from which it might be inferred that defеndant had notice of its worn and rotten condition. No error was committed in this. Dotton v. Village of Albion,
William Shoemaker, another witness for plaintiff, testified that he was emplоyed by the Tillage to take up the walk soon after the accident, and that he found the stringers rotten, аnd had no difficulty in lifting the boards therefrom. It is said here that the fact that the Tillage caused the walk to be taken up and repaired was not competent eTidence to show that the walk was in bad conditiоn. This point does not appear to haTe been made below, and the record indicates thаt the remoral of the walk, affording the opportunity to learn particularly its condition, was the point aimed at. Incidentally, it was drawn out that it was remoTed at the instigation of defendant. No error was committed in recerring this testimony.
Defendant's first request was as follows, riz.: “In this, case, your rerdiet will be for the defendant." An аssignment of error is made in the same language. This is not. a good assignment of error, under Supreme Court Rule No. 12, which requires assignments of error to be special. It does not point out the reason for the request, and leares the Court and opposing counsel to ascertain, as best they may whether the cаse is not defectire in some particular. So far as we discoTer, howeTer, the court was justified in submitting thе case to the jury.
In discussing the question of notice,.the trial judge said to the jury:
“ The notice required in the proTiso may be actual notice to the street commissioner, or by personal knowledge of such officer, or by the existence of the defects complained of being of such long standing that it might and ought to haTe been known, and that the want of knowledge may,*552 under given circumstances, imply want of due care; and, in the absence of proof of actual knowledge, you will determine from all the evidence in the case whether the walk, at the place the plaintiff claims she was injured, had been, prior tо that time, out of reasonable repair, and not in a reasonably safe and fit condition for public travel, and whether it had continued for such length of time prior to the accident that the want of knowlеdge may, under the ciroumstances of this case, imply want of due care on the part of the village in keeping that sidewalk in repair. If you so find, in view of all the evidence in the case, and the inferences naturally to be deduced from such evidence, you can find for the plaintiff, in the language of the stаtute, ‘such just damages as will compensate her for the injury sustained.'’"
Counsel for defendant assert that this ignorеd the question of contributory negligence. A judge cannot easily discuss all questions in a case at once. The question of contributory negligence was not overlooked, and we cannot assume that thе jury were led to disregard the instruction on that subject because it was not repeated in connection with the discussion upon the question of notice. This instruction regarding notice might have been more specific, but it was correct in substance. Stebbins v. Township of Keene,
The jury were instructed:
“ From a requеst which I will give you on the part of the defendant, I will charge you, further, that if the plaintiff had knowledge or was аware of the dangerous condition of*553 tbe walk, and purposely ventured along it, seeing or knowing of thе threatened danger, that would be contributory negligence on her part, and she could not recover.”
It is contended that this unduly restricted the jury upon the subject of plaintiff's negligence. The language is substantiаlly like that of defendant's fourth request, which was given, and which, we think, the court had a right to assume covered thе question from defendant’s standpoint.
We call attention to the fact that a record of a few pages would have been sufficient to raise all questions in this case.
The judgment of the circuit court will be affirmed.