King v. Moffett

Bell, Judge.

The first ground of the amended motion for new trial contends that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “Now the issues in this case, as I see it, was there a bad state of repair on that porch; did the tenant give Mr. King notice; did Mr. King after receiving that notice fail within a reasonable time—and that has been defined'—to make the repairs; and was that failure to make the repairs the cause of the plaintiff’s injury. You are to determine those things from the evidence. Mr. King’s negligence, if he was negligent in failing to make that repair, must be the…