City of Paducah v. Simmons

Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Carroll

— Affirming.

The appellee in an action against the appellant to recover damages for personal injuries succeeded in securing a verdict and judgment for one thousand dollars. We are asked .to reverse this judgment because it is excessive, and for error committed by the trial court in refusing to admit evidence offered in behalf of the city.

Briefly the facts are these: On the evening of August 30, 1910, between twilight and dark, appellee, a man about twenty-two years of age, in attempting to cross a narrow grass plot between the sidewalk and the curbing came…