Fenon v. City of Norfolk

Robert A. Fenon, an infant, filed a motion for judgment through Beverly Wiggins, his next friend, against the City of Norfolk, in which he sought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when the automobile in which he was riding as a guest passenger struck a tree which had fallen into a street during a storm.

Fenon alleged that the City “was under obligation to use reasonable care to maintain and keep its streets at all times in reasonably safe conditions for travelling,” and that the City negligently failed to keep the street in question “in a reasonably safe condition for travel…