Osborn v. City of Nashville

The plaintiffs, Mrs. Beaumont Osborn and her husband, ®. M. Osborn, brought these two suits, which were consolidated and tried together, against the City of Nashville and against Dr. R. G. Collins and his wife, for damages for the negligent injury of Mrs. Osborn on account of the dangerous condition of the concrete sidewalk in front of property owned by Mrs. Collins in the City of Nashville.

About five months before the accident this sidewalk had been painted by the defendant R. G. Collins. In the declaration, negligence of the defendants Collins was predicated on the following statement; that…