Thompson v. City of Charleston

Kenna, President:

Flora Beatrice Thompson, an infant of nine years, by her next friend, sued the City of Charleston in trespass on the case. She had fallen at a point in Ash Street between Magazine Street and Bigley Avenue where a section of curb twelve inches long and three and one-half inches deep had been left out in the original construction of the street. The street itself was paved with concrete, as was the sidewalk with the exception of eighteen inches or two feet just inside the curb and a like space between the sidewalk and the property line. The plaintiff, with her older sister, was…