Southern Railway Co. v. Autry

1. Assuming that a property owner whose land is traversed by a highway is under no duty to alter conditions existing upon the land before the dedication of the highway, so as to render his abutting property safe for travel by persons using the highway, yet where, after the establishment of the highway over his land, a pre-existing condition on the land, which consisted of a deep and wide hole in the ground, became altered by the hole being in the highway and being connected with a shallow ditch or drain in the actually traveled roadway, and there was thus created a condition in both the…