What is the effect of winter weather on the design of the sidewalk?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ince v. Toronto (City), 1900 CanLII 27 (ON CA):
I cannot take into consideration the method in which the sidewalk—so to call it—was constructed. That method was adopted on the deliberate judgment of competent engineers, having regard to the lie of the land, the intersection of the streets, and the fall necessary to give the gutters their proper depth: London v. Goldsmith (1889), 1889 CanLII 2 (SCC), 16 S.C.R. 231. As constructed, and apart from the conditions caused by snow or ice thereon, it was in a complete state of repair and not dangerous to passers thereon.
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