City of Lexington v. Cooper

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Winn —

Reversing.

Ou the north side of West Third street, in Lexington, adjacent to its intersection with Broadway, in the sum*18mer of 1909, the sidewalk was newly laid of concrete. Between the sidewalk and the curbing was left a strip of ground, in which, along the property where the accident hereinafter described occurred, four trees were left growing, the customary shade-trees along sidewalks in residence sections of our cities. At the particular point where each tree stood, the concrete men, in laying the sidewalks, left in the edge of the concrete a semi-circular…