Cresler v. Asheville.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Jane H. Gresler against the city of Asheville, heard by Judge E. B. Jones and a jury, at September Term, 1903, of the Superior C'onrt of Buncombe County.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomeRY, J.
It is the positive duty of the governing authorities of cities and towns to- keep the streets, including the sidewalks, in proper repair, that is, as was said in Bunch v. Edenton, 90 N. C., 131, and Russell v. Monroe, 116 N. C., 120, 47 Am. St. Rep., 823 : “the streets must be kept in such condition as that the people passing and rep-assing over them might at all times do so with reasonable .ease,, speed and safety; and proper repair implies that all bridges, dangerous pits, embankments, dangerous walls and the like perilous places and things, very near and adjoining the streets, shall be…
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