Chapman v. Mayor of Macon

Jackson, Judge.

Chapman alleged that in passing the sidewalk on third street in Macon, in the forenoon, he fell into an opening made by cellar doors in the sidewalk, and was thereby badly injured, and brought suit against the city. He proved on the trial that a few moments before the accident he had procured some eye-water from Massenburg’s drug store, and had gone to his place of business and applied the eye-wash, and on his return, the eye smarting, he had his handkerchief over it, the other eye not affected, being kept by him on the outer edge of the sidewalk, so as to keep on it, thinking…