Verran v. Town of Greeneville
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
1Opinion of the CourtPortrum, J.
This is an action brought in plaintiff’s behalf in which he sues, by next frjiend, tibe town of Greeneville in the sum of five thousand'dollars, ($5,000) damages, for an injury sustained, on the 4th day of January, 1924, when said town of Greeneville was engaged in the construction of sanitary sewers.
The declaration avers that the defendant, town of Greeneville, was engaged in building a sewer system along Park street, and that the employees doing the work carelessly and negligently left, when they quit work, a dynamite cap lying on the dirt near the ditch; that this cap was an attractive and…
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