Monday, December 7, 2009

i concur

Justice Heydenfelt of the California Supreme Court addressing the Defendant's negligence in failing to cover a hole in the sidewalk into which an intoxicated man fell and became injured in 1855:
A drunken man is as much entitled to a safe street as a sober one, and much more in need of it.

Robinson v. Pioche, Bayerque & Co., 5 Cal. 460 (1855).