Lampton v. Cedartown Co.

Hill, O. J.

Ella Lampton sued the Cedartown Company for damages on account of personal injuries. At the conclusion of her evidence the court awarded a nonsuit; which is assigned as error. Briefly stated, the evidence makes the following case: While the plaintiff was walking on the sidewalk of Main street in Cedartown, a piece of lumber Tell from the top of a building in course of construction, owned {gf the defendant, not striking her, but causing her, in order to avoid injury therefrom, to make a sudden jump and to fall against a pile of brick, from which she received the injuries complained…