City of Decatur v. Stoops

Appellee sued appellant to recover damages for injuries received while traveling upon a street in appellant city, which injuries, it is averred, resulted from a defect in such street. It is charged in the complaint that in said city there are two streets, Second street, which runs north and south, and Jefferson street, which runs east and west, which said streets cross each other at right angles; that Second street is one of the principal thoroughfares in *399said city; that in 1895, appellant caused a waterworks plant to be constructed; that one of the main lines for carrying water was…