Wilkinson v. City of Jackson

This is an appeal by D. W. Wilkinson, plaintiff in the court below, from the verdict of a jury and judgment entered thereon in favor of the city of Jackson, in an action for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him on account of a defect in a street of said city.

Appellant alleged in his declaration that, on an occasion when Hast Capitol street was blocked against vehicular traffic, and a very large crowd of people was assembled in that street for the purpose of viewing election returns which were being projected onto a screen a short distance east of the intersection of…