City of Macon v. Stevens

1. Where, in a city park, at a location immediately abutting a public sidewalk of the city, there was placed by the city a cannon, the barrel of which was left projecting a distance of about eight feet over the sidewalk and at a height of about five feet above the sidewalk, and which constituted an obstruction dangerous to pedestrians using the sidewalk, and a woman, when walking along the sidewalk, received an injury to her head as a result of her colliding with the projecting barrel of the cannon, the city was liable for the injuries thus sustained if proximately caused by negligence of the…