City of Dothan v. Gulledge

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellee, a minor eight years of age and suing by his father as next friend, recovered a judgment of $1,900 against appellant for damages sustained when appellee entered an opening in a storm sewer catch basin and slipped on a ladder inside the sewer. The case was tried on the doctrine of attractive nuisance. A motion for a new trial was denied.

The storm sewer catch basin where appellee was hurt was in the city airfield about 175 yards from appellee’s home and about 25 yards from a dirt road. Appellee lived with his family in what was formerly a barracks at Napier Field, near…