Fleming v. City of Memphis
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County (3d Division) to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari from the Court of Civil Appeals to the Supreme Court. — A. B. Pittman, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lajnsden
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
Plaintiff sued the city of Memphis for damages for injuries which she received as the result of the alleged negligence of the defendant in - maintaining certain streets, so as to suffer a dangerous hole, ditch, or washout to be and remain thereon. The city demurred to the declaration, assigning as cause thereof that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover in this case because the city of Memphis “by special dispensation from the legislature is not liable for the negligence of its agents, employees, and servants in the construction of bridges and highways,…
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