Collard was 64 when she gifted her son the building at 7395 LaSalle Blvd. in 2010.
She came to visit him that same year, parked around the corner and promptly fell hard on the sidewalk due to the deteriorated manhole.
She broke a wrist and suffered other injuries.
Bell Canada showed up to grill her on whether the lights were really dim and to question whether in fact the manhole was in such bad shape.
The issue was solved thanks to good old Street View, as all the plaintiff had to do was to fire up the laptop and move the cursor around.
Collard was shooting for $99,000 but will surely be thrilled to go home with over $72,000 in her purse.
Coolopolis noted a few years ago that cyclist Juliet Davies won $1 million from the city after ending up in a wheelchair due to her bicycle wheel getting stuck in a drain in 2007. It took a couple of years for the city to get around to replacing those drains.
In this case the rotting manhole was fixed within a few months, as Street View demonstrates.