Gilbreath v. City of Greensboro
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from W. J. Adams, J., at the April Term, 1910, of Guilford. This was a civil action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages of the defendant for personal injuries alleged to have been caused Mm by the negligence of the defendant in failing to keep in proper repair Cumberland Street. From a judgment for plaintiff the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Per CtjriaM.
The plaintiff was injured by his wagon running into a hole on Cumberland Street in the defendant city and throwing him off and running over his leg, which necessitated its amputation.
We are of opinion that the evidence was amply sufficient to establish the fact that the defendant’s authorities had, several years prior to the injury, taken charge of and treated Cumberland Street as a public street of the city of Greensboro; that the overseer of streets, an official of said city, had by direction of the street committee and its successor, the street commission of said city, repaired…
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