City of Phoenix v. Williams

LOCKWOOD, Justice.

The City of Phoenix, defendants in the court below and hereinafter referred to as appellants, appeal from a verdict and judg ment in favor of plaintiffs, B. R. and Hazel M. Williams, hereinafter referred to as appellees. Evidence was adduced at trial that at about noon on April 8, 1957, a person whose name was not noted, called the City of Phoenix to complain of a loose manhole cover at Second Street and East Washington. The call was directed to the Police Department, from whence the caller’s message was reported to an officer in a patrol car. The officer drove to the…