City of Clarksville v. Deason

On June 8, 1925 the plaintiff below E. "VV. Deason sustained personal injuries from stepping upon an iron grating and falling into a coal hole or entrance to a coal cellar upon the collapse of the grating, due to defective condition from decay of a wooden frame upon which the grating rested as it was set into a concrete pavement. The grating was thirty-two inches long and twenty-four inches wide consisting of two parts coming together in the middle. It was about four to six inches from the front wall o£ the Bailey building on Second street, and was entirely on the land of the owner of the…