Taylor

This action was brought against the defendants Manson, Schmitz, Woodward and Casey, members of and constituting the board of public works of the city and county of San Francisco, and against the other defendants as sureties upon their official bonds, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff by falling off a sidewalk in the city and county of San Francisco, alleged to have been in a defective condition and dangerous to the traveling public. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, upon which judgment was entered, and this appeal is from the judgment and an order denying the motion of the defendants for a new trial.

It appears from the record that between 8 and 9 o’clock on the evening of April 27, 1904, the plaintiff, then about seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his son, T. K. Taylor, while traveling on the sidewalk on the south side of Fourteenth street going west toward Minna street, fell, and sustained a severe fracture of the right hip, and was in consequence for a long time confined in a hospital under the care of physicians. The position can be better understood by reference to the following diagram:

The sidewalk on Fourteenth street was…