City of Atlanta v. Brown
Supreme Court of Georgia
New Trial. Charge of Court. Practice in Supreme Court. Admission. Before Judge Dorsey. City Court of Atlanta. March Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision, it is only necessary to add that the grounds of. the motion for new trial were as follows : (1) to (3.) Because the verdict was contrary to lawj evidence and the charge of the court.
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New Trial. Charge of Court. Practice in Supreme Court. Admission. Before Judge Dorsey. City Court of Atlanta. March Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision, it is only necessary to add that the grounds of. the motion for new trial were as follows : (1) to (3.) Because the verdict was contrary to lawj evidence and the charge of the court. (4.) Because the court erred in the following charge to the jury, upon the contradictory statements of plaintiff, and her mother to Mrs. Lee Brown as to treading and slipping on a banana peeling being the cause of her fall, and plaintiff’s saying…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The plaintiff brought suit to recover damages from the city of Atlanta for a personal injury, which she alleged was done her by reason of a fall, while she was walking, with all care and caution, on the north side of East Mitchell street in said city; that this fall was on a rough sidewalk, which had been made of bricks, and in consequence of the rough and broken condition of the same and the steep grade of an adjoining stone pavement; that the bricks which composed the said sidewalk had been torn up and loosened from their positions, and it was in an unsafe condition; that the…
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