Tegtmier v. City of Covington

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

This action was instituted in the Kenton circuit court by Lily Tegtmier to recover damages for personal injuries, incurred by a fall on Johnson street, in the city of Covington. The petition avers that the city, through a contractor, was reconstructing the street at the point where the injury occurred, and had excavated a ditch or hole several inches deep, which had been left unguarded and without signal or warning; and that appellee, while traveling along; the street after dark, and exercising care for her own protection, stepped into the…