Jarrell v. Mayor & Council of Wilmington

The facts appear in the charge of the Court.

Lore, C. J.,

charging the jury:

Gentlemen of the jury:—William E. Jarrell and Mary E. Jarrell, his wife, the plaintiffs, seek to recover damages in this action for personal injuries to Mary E. Jarrell, the wife, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.

It is claimed that at the time of the accident, there was an awning at the north-west corner of King and Fourth Streets in this city, extending out about eight feet southerly from the curb stone and running about ten feet westerly over the wagon-way of Fourth Street. That the…