diff --git a/src/ng/location.js b/src/ng/location.js
index d193b1ca667e..0a47445f6f87 100644
--- a/src/ng/location.js
+++ b/src/ng/location.js
@@ -184,10 +184,6 @@ function LocationHashbangUrl(appBase, hashPrefix) {
 
     this.$$compose();
 
-    if (!this.$$path) {
-      this.$$path = '/';
-    }
-
     /*
      * In Windows, on an anchor node on documents loaded from
      * the filesystem, the browser will return a pathname
diff --git a/test/ng/locationSpec.js b/test/ng/locationSpec.js
index b66f689b725a..ff823d306efd 100644
--- a/test/ng/locationSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/locationSpec.js
@@ -1487,16 +1487,6 @@ describe('$location', function() {
       expect(location.url()).toBe('/not-starting-with-slash');
       expect(location.absUrl()).toBe('http://server/pre/index.html#/not-starting-with-slash');
     });
-
-
-    it("should return / for path for the application root path", function() {
-      location = new LocationHashbangUrl('http://server/pre/index.html', '#');
-      location.$$parse('http://server/pre/index.html');
-      expect(location.path()).toBe('/');
-
-      location.$$parse('http://server/pre/');
-      expect(location.path()).toBe('/');
-    });
   });