Harris v. City of Rome

The present action is brought by Oscar Harris for certain injuries alleged to have been sustained by his son by reason of the unsafe condition of one of the streets of the defendant city. It was alleged in part that about 7 o’clock p. m. on December 29, 1936, his son was running along the west side of Gibbons Street when he stumbled in a ditch and drain across that part of the street used by pedestrians, precipitating him from said street over the side of the said street and into the chasm on the west side thereof; that at said place there is no paved sidewalk of any kind or description, but…