In what circumstances will a municipality be liable for failing to prevent a pedestrian from slipping and falling on a section of the highway where he was walking at the time of the slip and fall?

The municipality knew or ought to have known that pedestrians would walk on that part of the highway where the slip and fall occurred. In Ryan v. Stratford (City), at para. 12, the deputy judge stated: “In the case at bar, parking was permitted in the very spot where the plaintiff parked. It would be impossible to access the rear or passenger side of a vehicle without stepping in or near the depression here involved.”