City of Natchez v. Lewis
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Adams county. LIon. Moyse II. Wilkinson, Judge. Christina Lewis, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the city of Natchez, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff defendant appealed to the supreme court. The plaintiff’s suit was for recovery of damages for personal injuries sustained by her by reason of defective condition of a sidewalk on .one of the streets of the city.
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From the circuit court of Adams county. LIon. Moyse II. Wilkinson, Judge. Christina Lewis, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the city of Natchez, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff defendant appealed to the supreme court. The plaintiff’s suit was for recovery of damages for personal injuries sustained by her by reason of defective condition of a sidewalk on .one of the streets of the city. The evidence showed that the city for several months before plaintiff’s injury allowed a hole to exist in the sidewalk, and up to the time' of…
1Opinion of the Court
Calhoon, L,
delivered tlie opinion of the court.
There was a hole in the sidewalk, extending into it twelve inches or more, and slanting downward and outward toward the street several feet. It had been there some months — too long for entertaining the idea that the city had no notice of it. There was no light to expose it to persons at night. Appellee knew of the existence of this hole, but on the particular occasion forgot it. On a night dark and rainy, somewhere about eleven o’clock, she, in company with her stepson, was going home along this sidewalk, and, to avoid the mud, was walking on…
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