Mayor of Savannah v. Kicklighter

Julia Kieklighter obtained a judgment against the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah, for damages from injury which she alleged she sustained by walking into certain iron rails embedded in the ground next to a sidewalk on a certain street in that city, and extending over the sidewalk. The defendant contends that a new trial should be granted, because the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “The jury may also consider any other evidence which has been introduced here before it to-day, such as the standards which are alleged to have caused the injury;” fox the reasons (a) “that…