Bryant v. Jefferson City

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this action for damages for personal injuries, allegedly caused by the failure of the city to properly maintain a stop sign, the trial judge held the two hour period between the city’s receipt of notice and the occurrence of the accident “was not sufficient time under T.C.A., § 29-20-203(b), for the defendant to act in regard to the missing stop sign.”

The pertinent facts are not in dispute. On January 4, 1982, at approximately 4:30 p.m., a stop sign at the intersection of South College Street and Russell Street was blown down. A security guard at Carson-Newman College…