Nolan v. City of Shreveport

MERITS

On trial the evidence established that the accident occurred in the sparsely settled portion of the city on an unimproved street in the center of which the city, had graded a roadway for vehicular traffic leaving on each side of the roadway in its natural condition a space of about nineteen feet. The gas shut-off pipe which was several inches in diameter was constructed and located by the Gas Company as alleged by plaintiff; it extended approximately eight inches above the surface of the ground and was located at a point near the roadway (within the nineteen feet above referred to)…