Hodges v. City Council of Augusta

It is contended that this case is controlled by the following ruling in City of Atlanta v. Key, 42 Ga. App. 214 (155 S. E. 499): “The maintenance of a sewerage-drainage system of a municipality in a good working and sanitary condition is a governmental function (City Council of Augusta v. Cleveland, 148 Ga. 734, 98 S. E. 345), and the city is not liable for personal injuries to one who stepped into a basin-like depression in the pavement on a street, where the depression was made and maintained by the city for the purpose of forming a catch-basin to carry surface water into one of its sewers,…