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<p class="p0"><span style="COLOR: #0066ff" lang="EN-US">there was nothing to stop me; I walked right up and over and down into the ditch; I can't say that I was looking up or down; I was looking like anybody would; I was <a href="http://www.ralphlaurensoutlet-online.com/"><strong>Ralph Lauren</strong></a> looking ahead; when I was walking over the dirt, I suppose I was looking down; I was walking at an ordinary gait; my left foot went into the ditch first; my http://www.ralphlaurensoutlet-online.com right foot had just struck the edge of the ditch on the other side; it slipped after it doubled up; one foot had gone directly down, but the right foot doubled up in going down; I didn't see any pipes in there before attempting to step across. I didn't look to see if there was any pipe in there; I did not look for any ditch before I tried to step across it."Mr. Howard testified: "I went to the place where they told me she was hurt, and found they had an open ditch there; they had thrown the dirt out to the north and laid the pipe in the ditch; the stones that had been in that crossing were thrown to the south, and it seemed to me there was one on each side of the crossing; the dirt- was just as it. was thrown out of the ditch; it was piled up there probably 20 to 24 inches high; it sloped toward the ditch probably 20 to 24 inches, and toward the sidewalk the slope was more gradual as you approached coming down off the sidewalk; it showed that there had been traffic over it during the time they were digging; it must have been in the middle of the day or earlier that they began digging at that opening; there was a light, one that I saw, as I remember, six or eight feet to the east of that foot path on that dirt pile, and a little over to one side of the dirt pile; from the point where the injuryof the dirt pile, but from where the Injur occurred up on the angle it was ten feet; bi on the north side of the pile it did not refle< into the ditch; it threw <a href="http://www.ralphlaurensoutlet-online.com/"><strong>Cheap Ralph Lauren Polo</strong></a> a shadow across tt ditch; I don't think there was any oth