Odil v. Maury County

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

This is an action for personal injuries instituted by Dorothy Lee Odil, a child ten years of age, by her father as next friend, against Maury County.

The trial court sustained a demurrer to the declaration on the ground that it did not state a cause of action and dismissed the suit.

The declaration alleges that in the year 1936 the defendant constructed a two-story brick school building, with a basement, on a school lot at Spring Hill in Maury County; that the basement was entered by a concrete ramp paralleling the building, which was twenty feet in length,…