City of Dawson v. Carter

Plaintiff sued the city and a construction company jointly for personal injuries to .himself, caused by his making use of a bridge in the public street in going from a hotel at which he was a guest to a taxicab. He alleged that the construction company, under some contract with the city, was placing water-mains for the city in a ditch dug by the company in a public street, and, with the knowledge and consent of the city, constructed the said bridge across the ditch, “for the purpose of accommodating guests of the hotel to cross the ditch, going to and from taxicabs, to the hotel;” that the…