Doyle v. City of Chattanooga
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM HAMILTON Appeal from Circuit Court, Hamilton County. — Flank: M. Thompson, Special Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
Under the above case style two separate actions have been prosecuted by M. A. Doyle, as administrator, to recover for the death of each of two sons by drowning-in an artificial pond, claimed to be within the limits of a street of the defendant city, known as Bluff street.
*436It appears that many years ago a quarry was worked, by the then owner of the land, on the site of the pond complained of; the excavation of stone was to a depth of about eighteen feet below the natural surface, and after the abandonment of the quarry water accumulated, forming a pond of that depth, approximately.
The pond…
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