Walton v. City of Seneca

Susan H. Walton (“Plaintiff’) appeals the judgment entered in accordance with a jury verdict in favor of City of Seneca (“City”) on Plaintiffs personal injury suit for damages she alleged she suffered when she stepped into a City “water meter hole” that was located in a restaurant parking lot. Plaintiff claimed the “hole,” a water meter vault, was City’s property and that it constituted a dangerous condition, thereby qualifying as a statutory exception to the general rule that all money damages claims against municipalities are barred by sovereign immunity.

In two points, Plaintiff alleges the…