Logan v. City of Clarksdale

L. J. Logan, Jr. sued the City of Clarksdale to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a proximate result of the negligence of the City. He charged, in his declaration, that he was operating the City’s asphalt distributor and “applying a prime coat of asphalt on a street known as Rose Circle Drive in the Rose G-arden Subdivision, lying adjacent to said City”; that the asphalt primer was highly inflammable ; that because of a defective muffler and tail pipe on the truck, the substance ignited and he was compelled to jump to safety; and that, in so doing,…