Murray v. City of Nashville

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SHRIVER, J.

The plaintiff, Patrick A. Murray, sued the defendants for $35,000, damages and for $15,000 punitive damages for personal injuries incurred when he fell while attempting to walk across Union Street at a point a short distance East of its intersection with 6th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee.

The declaration is in two counts. The first count alleges that the plaintiff stepped on a broken concrete gutter adjacent to the sidewalk, lost his footing and tripped and fell on a dangerous ditch which was located some 20 inches, more or less, from the curbing on the North side of Union…