City Council v. Little

Suit was brought against the City Council of Augusta by Mrs. Little, for the homicide of her husband, which, she alleged, was occasioned by a defect in a sidewalk within the corporate limits. This defect was in having the sidewalk about level from the buildings thereon to within 29 inches of the asphalt street paving, where the sidewalk sloped or had afall'of 29 degrees to the curb which joins it with the asphalt paving. Upon this sloping portion of the sidewalk plaintiff’s husband, an old man, slipped and fell, thereby receiving injuries from which he died. The city denied liability, and set…