City of Birmingham v. Jeff

The complaint in this case, as originally filed, was against several designated defendants, but upon the trial, by proper orders, the court eliminated all defendants except this appellant, City of Birmingham, against whom the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff assessing her damages at $500, and judgment was rendered accordingly, from which this appeal was taken.

The cause was submitted to the jury only upon count A, which claims of the defendants the sum of $10,000, as damages, averring that on, to wit, June 28, 1936, the plaintiff, while walking along the east sidewalk of…