Mayor of Baltimore v. Poe

The appellee recovered a judgment against the appellants for damages from injuries sustained on August 30th, 1929, as a result of alleged negligence of the appellants, causing him to ride his motorcycle into a hole in the street bed adjacent to tracks of the railways company. The place of the accident was stated to be at the crossing of Fort Avenue and Light Street in Baltimore, and the hole was described as twenty inches long, eight inches wide, and eight inches deep. The municipality was held liable because of its general responsibility for the condition of the streets of the city, and the…