Bishop v. City of Meridian

The plaintiff, Miss Annie Bishop, sued the City of Meridian for damages on account of personal injuries sustained on October 31, 1953, when she is alleged to have stepped into a broken drain or sewer when getting off of the sidewalk at the corner of Fourth Street and Twenty-Third Avenue in downtown Meridian. The defendant filed an answer in which it denied the material allegations of the declaration as to the fault or negligence of the City, and as to the extent of the injuries alleged to have been sustained.

There was incorporated into the defendant’s answer a plea in bar to the plaintiff’s…