Mayor of Buford v. Medley

The uncontradicted evidence showed that there existed, at a point where the State cement-paved highway joined with the asphalt-paved street through the City of Buford, about two hundred yards within the city limits, a hole or defect variously estimated to be from two to three inches deep and from eighteen to twenty-four inches square; that the husband of the plaintiff was in a car being driven by their son, and that as the automobile approached the hole or defect it was traveling at a speed of from thirty to forty miles an hour; that the morning was misty and the roads wet and slippery from…