Brown v. City of Chattanooga

Certiorari has been granted and this case argued. The circuit judge sustained a general motion for a directed verdict and dismissed the plaintiff’s suit. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court.

Belle Brown, the plaintiff, is a colored woman and lived within about two blocks of the scene of the injury, and about noon on October 24, 1940, she was walking along the street on the south side of MeCallie Avenue and stepped on a loose plank, causing her to fall and break an arm and suffering- other serious and painful injuries. In the early summer the Works Progress…