Millwood v. DeKalb County
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Candler. DeKalb superior court. February term, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
Mrs. Millwood sued the County of DeKalb for damages, alleging that the county authorities had exercised the right they had under the law to work the convicts in a county chain-gang upon the public roads of the county; that a named road which crossed a private way had been worked by the chain-gang in such a manner as that persons traveling the private way were liable to be injured; that in coming along such private way at night, having no knowledge of the condition in which the public road had been left at the point where the private way intersected it, she fell and was injured. There were…
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