Texas Co. v. Williams

ANDEESON, Chief Justice.

As a general rule, no duty rests upon the owner or occupant abutting a sidewalk to keep the same in repair, and he is not liable for defects which he did not create. Hill v. Reaves, 224 Ala. 205, 139 So. 263; 13 R. C. L. 321, § 265. But, where the abutting owner or occupant, as here, creates or establishes a driveway over or across a sidewalk for the use of his patrons or customers to go to or from his place of business, it becomes his duty to use reasonable care to see that'so much of the sidewalk so used is kept in a reasonably safe condition for pedestrians. The…